3.I.2A

Geometry | Part IB, 2005

Write down the Riemannian metric on the disc model Δ\Delta of the hyperbolic plane. Given that the length minimizing curves passing through the origin correspond to diameters, 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)\operatorname{radius~} \tanh (\rho / 2). Prove that the hyperbolic area is 2π(coshρ1)2 \pi(\cosh \rho-1).

State the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for the area of a hyperbolic triangle. Given a hyperbolic triangle and an interior point PP, show that the distance from PP to the nearest side is at most cosh1(3/2)\cosh ^{-1}(3 / 2).

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