Delambre-Gauss formulas for augmented, right-angled hexagons in hyperbolic 4-space

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.03.009zbMATH Open1246.52019arXiv1105.2697OpenAlexW2021277477MaRDI QIDQ438174FDOQ438174

Yan Loi Wong, Ying Zhang, Ser Peow Tan

Publication date: 20 July 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the geometry of oriented right-angled hexagons in H^4, the hyperbolic 4-space, via Clifford numbers or quaternions. We show how to augment alternate sides of such a hexagon so that for the non-augmented sides, we can define quaternion half side-lengths whose angular parts are obtained from half the Euler angles associated to a certain orientation-preserving isometry of the Euclidean 3-space. This generalizes the complex half side-lengths of oriented right-angled hexagons in H^3. We also define appropriate complex half side-lengths for the augmented sides of the hexagon. We further explain how to geometrically read off the quaternion half side-lengths for a given oriented,augmented, right-angled hexagon in H^4. Our main result is a set of generalized Delambre-Gauss formulas for oriented, augmented, right-angled hexagons in H^4, involving the quaternion half side-lengths and the complex half side-lengths. We also show in the appendix how the same method gives Delambre-Gauss formulas for oriented right-angled hexagons in H^3, from which the well-known sine and cosine laws can be deduced. These formulas generalize the classical Delambre-Gauss formulas for spherical/hyperbolic triangles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2697

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zbMATH Keywords

Clifford numberDelambre-Gauss formulasEuler angleshyperbolic 4-spacequaternion lengthright-angled hexagon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces (30F99) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

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