Phase portraits of hyperbolic geometry

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09882-YzbMATH Open1426.51004arXiv1903.01309OpenAlexW2963848606WikidataQ128037970 ScholiaQ128037970MaRDI QIDQ2325852FDOQ2325852

Paul Vrbik, Scott B. Lindstrom

Publication date: 30 September 2019

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

visualizationhyperbolic geometryphase plots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09)

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