A geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition and of gyration in the hyperbolic plane

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2004.10.012MaRDI QIDQ2565565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Vermeer

Publication date 27 September 2005

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2004.10.012

zbMATH Keywords

gyro-grouphyperbolic planemedianPoincaré model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Review text

The author presents a geometric interpretation of Ungar's addition operation in his construction of a gyro-group \((G, \oplus)\). Ungar's addition \(\oplus\) is presented as a geometrical composition of reflections. Further, in the hyperbolic geometry, the angle of gyration is shown to correspond to the defect of a certain triangle. A geometric interpretation of \(\boxplus\), an operation dual to \(\oplus\), is also given. By using his decomposition of \(\oplus\) into reflections, the author shows that the two known gyro-group structures in higher dimensional balls are identical.

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