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The discussion of plane sections can be performed for the unit hyperboloid of two sheets with equation : + = which can be generated by a rotating hyperbola around one of its axes (the one that cuts the hyperbola) A plane with slope less than 1 (1 is the slope of the asymptotes of the generating hyperbola) intersects either in an ellipse or in a ...
A hyperbola and its conjugate may have diameters which are conjugate. In the theory of special relativity, such diameters may represent axes of time and space, where one hyperbola represents events at a given spatial distance from the center, and the other represents events at a corresponding temporal distance from the center.
Another simple example is given by the infinite cyclic group : the Cayley graph of with respect to the generating set {} is a line, so all triangles are line segments and the graph is -hyperbolic. It follows that any group which is virtually cyclic (contains a copy of Z {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } of finite index) is also hyperbolic, for ...
The case a = 1 is called the unit hyperbola. The conjugate hyperbola is given by {: ‖ ‖ =} with an upper and lower branch passing through (0, a) and (0, −a). The hyperbola and conjugate hyperbola are separated by two diagonal asymptotes which form the set of null elements:
Subsets of the theory of hyperbolic groups can be used to give more examples of hyperbolic spaces, for instance the Cayley graph of a small cancellation group. It is also known that the Cayley graphs of certain models of random groups (which is in effect a randomly-generated infinite regular graph) tend to be hyperbolic very often.
Similarly, a given mass M of gas with changing volume will have variable density δ = M / V, and the ideal gas law may be written P = k T δ so that an isobaric process traces a hyperbola in the quadrant of absolute temperature and gas density. For hyperbolic coordinates in the theory of relativity see the History section.
The orthogonal group O(1, n) acts by norm-preserving transformations on Minkowski space R 1,n, and it acts transitively on the two-sheet hyperboloid of norm 1 vectors. Timelike lines (i.e., those with positive-norm tangents) through the origin pass through antipodal points in the hyperboloid, so the space of such lines yields a model of ...
Thus, in our example expression, the problem is how to absorb the coefficient of the cross-term 8xy into the functions u and v. Formally, this problem is similar to the problem of matrix diagonalization, where one tries to find a suitable coordinate system in which the matrix of a linear transformation is diagonal. The first step is to find a ...