Poincaré upper half-plane model

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The Poincaré upper half-plane model is a standard representation of the hyperbolic plane using the complex numbers with positive imaginary part, equipped with a specific metric that makes geodesics appear as semicircles and vertical lines.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Poincaré disk model 1
Poincaré half-plane model 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 2-dimensional manifold
Riemannian manifold
conformal model of the hyperbolic plane
model of hyperbolic geometry
simply connected surface
alsoKnownAs Poincaré half-plane NERFINISHED
upper half-plane model
boundaryAtInfinity extended real line ℝ ∪ {∞}
hasConditionOnImaginaryPart y > 0
hasCurvatureNormalization constant curvature -1
hasDimension 2
hasDistanceElement ds = √(dx² + dy²)/y
hasFullIsometryGroup PGL(2,ℝ) NERFINISHED
hasGaussianCurvature -1
hasGeodesicBoundaryCondition geodesics meet real axis orthogonally
hasGeodesics semicircles orthogonal to the real axis
vertical lines
hasGeodesicSymmetry reflections in geodesics are isometries
hasIsometryGroup PSL(2,ℝ) NERFINISHED
hasMetric ds² = (dx² + dy²) / y²
hasMetricTensor g = (1/y²)(dx⊗dx + dy⊗dy)
hasNaturalActionBy Möbius transformations with real coefficients
hasOrientationPreservingIsometryGroup PSL(2,ℝ) NERFINISHED
hasOrientationReversingIsometries complex conjugation composed with PSL(2,ℝ)
hasSectionalCurvature -1
hasStandardCoordinate z = x + i y
hasTopology standard subspace topology from ℂ
hasUnderlyingSet {z ∈ ℂ : Im(z) > 0}
hasVolumeElement dA = dx dy / y²
isComplete true
isConformallyEquivalentTo Poincaré disk model NERFINISHED
isConformalTo Euclidean upper half-plane NERFINISHED
isEquivalentTo upper half-plane with hyperbolic metric
isHomogeneous true
isIsometricTo Poincaré disk model NERFINISHED
isIsotropic true
isModelOf Lobachevskian geometry NERFINISHED
isSimplyConnected true
isSimplyTransitiveUnder PSL(2,ℝ) on oriented geodesics
namedAfter Henri Poincaré NERFINISHED
represents hyperbolic plane
usedIn Fuchsian groups NERFINISHED
Kleinian groups NERFINISHED
Teichmüller theory NERFINISHED
complex analysis
hyperbolic geometry
modular forms theory
number theory

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Farey tessellation embeddedIn Poincaré upper half-plane model
Non-Euclidean Geometry hasModel Poincaré upper half-plane model
subject surface form: Non-Euclidean geometry
this entity surface form: Poincaré half-plane model
Farey tessellation visualizedIn Poincaré upper half-plane model
this entity surface form: Poincaré disk model