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= Hypersphere =
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Introduction
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In geometry of higher dimensions, a hypersphere is the set of points
at a constant distance from a given point called its centre. It is a
manifold of codimension one�that is, with one dimension less than that
of the ambient space.
As the hypersphere's radius increases, its curvature decreases. In the
limit, a hypersphere approaches the zero curvature of a hyperplane.
Hyperplanes and hyperspheres are examples of hypersurfaces.
The term 'hypersphere' was introduced by Duncan Sommerville in his
discussion of models for non-Euclidean geometry. The first one
mentioned is a 3-sphere in four dimensions.
Some spheres are not hyperspheres: If 'S' is a sphere in E'm' where ,
and the space has 'n' dimensions, then 'S' is not a hypersphere.
Similarly, any 'n'-sphere in a proper flat is not a hypersphere. For
example, a circle is not a hypersphere in three-dimensional space, but
it is a hypersphere in the plane.
Further reading
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* Kazuyuki Enomoto (2013) Review of an article in 'International
Electronic Journal of Geometry'.
* Jemal Guven (2013) "Confining spheres in hyperspheres", Journal of
Physics A 46:135201,
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