Paper 3, Section I, F

Geometry | Part IB, 2010

(i) Write down the Poincaré metric on the unit disc model DD of the hyperbolic plane. Compute the hyperbolic distance ρ\rho from (0,0)(0,0) to (r,0)(r, 0), with 0<r<10<r<1.

(ii) Given a point PP in DD and a hyperbolic line LL in DD with PP not on LL, describe how the minimum distance from PP to LL is calculated. Justify your answer.

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