The Hyperbolic Plane in \mathbb{E}^3

Abstract: We build an explicit

C^{1}

isometric embedding

f_{i n f t y} : m a t h b b H^{2} o m a t h b b E^{3}

of the hyperbolic plane whose image is relatively compact. Its limit set is a closed curve of Hausdorff dimension 1. Given an initial embedding

f_{0}

, our construction generates iteratively a sequence of maps by adding at each step

k

a layer of

N_{k}

corrugations. To understand the behavior of

d f_{i} n f t y

we introduce a

f o r m a l

c o r r u g a t i o n

p r o c e s s

leading to a

f o r m a l

a n a l o g u e

P h i_{i n f t y} : m a t h b b H^{2} o m a t h c a l L (m a t h b b R^{2}, m a t h b b R^{3})

. We show a self-similarity structure for

P h i_{i n f t y}

. We next prove that

d f_{i} n f t y

is close to

P h i_{i n f t y}

up to a precision that depends on the sequence

N_{*} : = (N_{k})_{k}

. We then introduce the

p a t t e r n

m a p s

and

, of respectively

P h i_{i n f t y}

and

d f_{i} n f t y

, that together with

d f_{0}

entirely describe the geometry of the Gauss maps associated to

P h i_{i n f t y}

and

d f_{i} n f t y

. For well chosen sequences of corrugation numbers, we finally show an asymptotic convergence of

towards

over circles of rational radii.

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