Apollonian circles and hyperbolic geometry

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Authors Riku Klén, M. Vuorinen

Publication date 3 January 2014

Published in The Journal of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2630

zbMATH Keywords

Apollonian circlehyperbolic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to study two basic problems of hyperbolic geometry. The first problem is to compare the hyperbolic and Euclidean distances. The second problem is to find hyperbolic counterparts of some basic geometric constructions such as the construction of the middle point of a hyperbolic geodesic segment. Apollonian circles have a key role in this study.

Review text

The Apollonian metric is based on the fact that hyperbolic spheres and Euclidean spheres are essentially the same. In this paper under review, the authors use Apollonian circles to compare the hyperbolic distance with the Euclidean distance and to describe a geometric construction for finding the hyperbolic midpoint. In terms of Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic balls are interpreted. They also discuss lower bounds for the hyperbolic distance by using the Euclidean distance.

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