Radial expansion preserves hyperbolic convexity and radial contraction preserves spherical convexity

DOI10.1007/S00022-019-0497-8MaRDI QIDQ2329375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dhruv Kohli, Jeffrey M. Rabin

Publication date 17 October 2019

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04708

zbMATH Keywords

dilationhyperbolic convexityPoincaré diskpreserving convexityradial expansion and contractionspherical convexitystereographic projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55)

Abstract: On a flat plane, convexity of a set is preserved by both radial expansion and contraction of the set about any point inside it. Using the Poincar'e disk model of hyperbolic geometry, we prove that radial expansion of a hyperbolic convex set about a point inside it always preserves hyperbolic convexity. Using stereographic projection of a sphere, we prove that radial contraction of a spherical convex set about a point inside it, such that the initial set is contained in the closed hemisphere centred at that point, always preserves spherical convexity.

Review text

The authors study the behavior of convexity under expansions and contractions in the hyperbolic plane and in the sphere. They work with the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane and use the compactification \(\mathbb{C}\cup \{\infty\}\) to work with the sphere. The notion of expansion and contraction with respect to a point \(z\) in the hyperbolic plane and in the sphere is defined by using the idea of translating \(z\) to the origin, doing at the origin the dilation and translating back the result. The dilation at the origin is defined in the paper. By means of computations, the authors show that the expansion (resp. contraction) preserves the convexity of a set in the Poincaré disk (resp. in the sphere) if the transformation is done from a point inside the set but that the convexity may not be preserved in the other cases.

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