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Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk

A 2-D space having Hyperbolic Geometry defined as the 2-Ball $\{x\in\Bbb{R}^2 : \vert x\vert<1\}$, with Hyperbolic Metric

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{dx^2+dy^2\over(1-r^2)^2}.
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The Poincaré disk is a model for Hyperbolic Geometry, and there is an isomorphism between the Poincaré disk model and the Klein-Beltrami Model.

See also Elliptic Plane, Hyperbolic Geometry, Hyperbolic Metric, Klein-Beltrami Model




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25