Cyclic polygons in non-Euclidean geometry (Q550546)

It is well-known that in Euclidean geometry among all quadrilaterals with prescribed edges the cyclic quadrilateral, i.e. the quadrilateral whose vertices all belong to a single circle, has largest area. In fact this theorem is valid for every polygon. In the paper under review is considered the following question: Does the above theorem also hold in non-Euclidean geometry? The author considered the case non-asymptotic triangles in the hyperbolic plane \(\mathbb{H}^2\) and triangles whose angles and edges are \(<\pi\) in the sphere \(S^2\). There are proved the following theorems: 1. Among all non-Euclidean quadrilaterals with given sides there is a quadrilateral with largest area; it is characterized by \(\alpha+\gamma= \beta+\delta\), where \(\alpha\), \(\gamma\) and \(\beta\), \(\delta\) are angles of the quadrilateral \(A\), \(B\), \(C\), \(D\) which correspond to vertices \(A\), \(C\) and \(B\), \(D\) correspondingly. 2. In spherical geometry among all polygons with \(n\) given sides, contained in a half-sphere, the polygon inscribed into a circle has largest area.