Penrose diagram
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concept
A Penrose diagram is a spacetime diagram used in general relativity that compactifies infinite regions to finite size, allowing the global causal structure of a spacetime to be visualized.
Observed surface forms (3)
- conformal diagram ×2
- causal spacetime diagram ×1
- spacetime diagram ×1
Instances (4)
- Schwarzschild Penrose diagram
- Kerr Penrose diagram
- Reissner–Nordström Penrose diagram
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Penrose–Carter diagrams
via concept surface "spacetime diagram"
surface form: Penrose–Carter diagram