Phase portraits of hyperbolic geometry

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09882-YMaRDI QIDQ2325852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Scott B. Lindstrom, Paul Vrbik

Publication date 30 September 2019

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01309

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometryphase plotsvisualization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09)

Abstract: Phase plotting is a useful way of visualising functions on complex space. We reinvent the method in the context of hyperbolic geometry, and we use it to plot functions on various representative surfaces for hyperbolic space, illustrating with direct motions in particular. The reinvention is nontrivial, and we discuss the essential features for ensuring that such visualisations convey useful information. Our approach is to exploit conformal maps between representative surfaces, in order to uniquely represent the preimages of geodesics. Our considerations and methods are prototypical of what one might consider for adapting similar methods of visualisation in other contexts.

Review text

In the style of \textit{T. Needham} [Visual complex analysis. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (1997; Zbl 0893.30001)] and \textit{D. N. Arnold} and \textit{J. Rogness} [Notices Am. Math. Soc. 55, No. 10, 1226--1231 (2008; Zbl 1200.30036)], the authors' aim is to visualize geometric transformations in several models of hyperbolic geometry by means of colored phase plots.

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