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  2. Hyperbolic geometry - Wikipedia

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    Compared to Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry presents many difficulties for a coordinate system: the angle sum of a quadrilateral is always less than 360°; there are no equidistant lines, so a proper rectangle would need to be enclosed by two lines and two hypercycles; parallel-transporting a line segment around a quadrilateral causes ...

  3. Hyperbolic metric space - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a hyperbolic metric space is a metric space satisfying certain metric relations (depending quantitatively on a nonnegative real number δ) between points. . The definition, introduced by Mikhael Gromov, generalizes the metric properties of classical hyperbolic geometry and of tr

  4. Hyperbolic space - Wikipedia

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    There are many more metric properties of hyperbolic space that differentiate it from Euclidean space. Some can be generalised to the setting of Gromov-hyperbolic spaces, which is a generalisation of the notion of negative curvature to general metric spaces using only the large-scale properties.

  5. Constructions in hyperbolic geometry - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbolic geometry is a non-Euclidean geometry where the first four axioms of Euclidean geometry are kept but the fifth axiom, the parallel postulate, is changed.The fifth axiom of hyperbolic geometry says that given a line L and a point P not on that line, there are at least two lines passing through P that are parallel to L. [1]

  6. Ideal triangle - Wikipedia

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    Ideal triangles have the following properties: All ideal triangles are congruent to each other. The interior angles of an ideal triangle are all zero. An ideal triangle has infinite perimeter. An ideal triangle is the largest possible triangle in hyperbolic geometry.

  7. Hyperbolic triangle - Wikipedia

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    In hyperbolic geometry, a hyperbolic triangle is a triangle in the hyperbolic plane. It consists of three line segments called sides or edges and three points called angles or vertices . Just as in the Euclidean case, three points of a hyperbolic space of an arbitrary dimension always lie on the same plane.

  8. Ideal point - Wikipedia

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    So, these lines do not intersect at an ideal point and such points, although well-defined, do not belong to the hyperbolic space itself. The ideal points together form the Cayley absolute or boundary of a hyperbolic geometry. For instance, the unit circle forms the Cayley absolute of the Poincaré disk model and the Klein disk model.

  9. Hypercycle (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In hyperbolic geometry, a hypercycle, hypercircle or equidistant curve is a curve whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line (its axis). Given a straight line L and a point P not on L , one can construct a hypercycle by taking all points Q on the same side of L as P , with perpendicular distance to L equal to that ...