1.I.4B

Geometry | Part IB, 2001

Write down the Riemannian metric on the disc model Δ\Delta of the hyperbolic plane. What are the geodesics passing through the origin? Show that the hyperbolic circle of radius ρ\rho centred on the origin is just the Euclidean circle centred on the origin with Euclidean radius tanh(ρ/2)\tanh (\rho / 2).

Write down an isometry between the upper half-plane model HH of the hyperbolic plane and the disc model Δ\Delta, under which iHi \in H corresponds to 0Δ0 \in \Delta. Show that the hyperbolic circle of radius ρ\rho centred on ii in HH is a Euclidean circle with centre icoshρi \cosh \rho and of radius sinhρ\sinh \rho.

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