A geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition and of gyration in the hyperbolic plane (Q2565565)

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A geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition and of gyration in the hyperbolic plane
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    A geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition and of gyration in the hyperbolic plane (English)
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    27 September 2005
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    The author presents a geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition operation in his construction of a gyro-group \((G, \oplus)\). Ungar's addition \(\oplus\) is presented as a geometrical composition of reflections. Further, in the hyperbolic geometry, the angle of gyration is shown to correspond to the defect of a certain triangle. A geometric interpretation of \(\boxplus\), an operation dual to \(\oplus\), is also given. By using his decomposition of \(\oplus\) into reflections, the author shows that the two known gyro-group structures in higher dimensional balls are identical.
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    hyperbolic plane
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    Poincaré model
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    gyro-group
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    median
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