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Hyperbolic Metric

The Metric for the Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk, a model for Hyperbolic Geometry. The hyperbolic metric is invariant under conformal maps of the disk onto itself.

See also Hyperbolic Geometry, Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk


References

Bear, H. S. ``Part Metric and Hyperbolic Metric.'' Amer. Math. Monthly 98, 109-123, 1991.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25