The hyperbolic triangle defect. (English) Zbl 1062.51013

Ungar, Abraham A.

Mladenov, Ivaïlo M. (ed.) et al., Proceedings of the 5th international conference on geometry, integrability and quantization, Sts. Constantine and Elena, Bulgaria, June 5–12, 2003. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISBN 954-84952-8-7/pbk). 225-236 (2004).

The author introduces hyperbolic trigonometry by means of gyrovector spaces (for a comprehensive introduction into the theory of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces see the author’s book [Beyond the Einstein addition law and its gyroscopic Thomas precession. The theory of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces. Dordrecht: Kluwer (2001; Zbl 0972.83002)]). A special kind of gyrovector spaces is used to describe the Poincaré ball model of hyperbolic geometry [the author, Comput. Math. Appl. 41, No. 1–2, 135–147 (2001; Zbl 0988.51017)]. Within this setting the author derives formulae for the hyperbolic law of sines and cosines, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the angular defect of a hyperbolic triangle.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1048.53002].

Reviewer: Richard Bödi (Rüschlikon)

MSC:

51M09

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries

Keywords:

hyperbolic trigonometry; triangle defect

Citations:

Zbl 0972.83002; Zbl 0988.51017