Projective-type axioms for the hyperbolic plane

DOI10.1007/BF00181394MaRDI QIDQ1205444zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. L. Skala

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00181394

zbMATH Keywords

configurationhyperbolic geometryincidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09)

Review text

Karl Menger showed in 1938 that hyperbolic geometry can be developed in terms of the primitive notions of ``point, ``line and ``incidence along with postulates that refer only to collinearity, concurrency and the existence of points and lines. However, one of these postulates assumes a special case of the Fundamental Law of Projectivities and so brings in set-theoretical and inductive considerations not present in any of the other axioms. The author shows that the laws of Pappus and Desargues, restricted to cases when the relevant lines intersect, imply the Fundamental Law of Projectivities in the hyperbolic plane. The author thus shows that hyperbolic geometry can be derived solely from configuration postulates.

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