Non-Euclidean Geometry

Loo-keng Hua
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Loo-keng Hua: Academia Sinica, Institute of Applied Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 6 in Starting with the Unit Circle, 1981, pp 115-121 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chapter 3 we saw that the group G which we have been discussing is formed from the transformation 1 $$ y = \frac{{xT + xx'{v_1} + {v_2}}}{{xu{'_2} + xx'b + d}} $$ (And at the same time we have 2 $$ yy'\left( {\frac{{xu{'_1} + xx'a + c}}{{xu{'_2} + xx'b + d}}} \right).) $$ Observe that the matrix 3 $$ M = \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} T&{u{'_1}}&{u{'_2}}\\ {{v_1}}&a&b\\ {{v_1}}&c&d \end{array}} \right) $$ Satisfies 4 $$ MJM' = J. $$ Thus in terms of homogeneous coordinates we have 5 $$ (\xi *,\eta _1^*,\eta _2^*) = \rho (\xi ,{\eta _1},{\eta _2})M, $$ where M is a Transformation leaving invariant $$ \xi \xi ' - {\eta _1}{\eta _2} = 0. $$ Letting n1 = s1 + s2,n2 = −s1 + s2 then gives $$ \xi \xi ' + s_1^2 - s_2^2 = 0, $$ and dividing this by s2 we obtain an (n + 1)-dimensional unit sphere. Therefore the study of the n-dimensional space expanded through the group é is equivalent to the study of the spherical geometry of the unit sphere in (n + 1)-dimensional space. We shall discuss this type of geometry again when we study mixed partial differential equations later on. However, it may be mentioned that this is just a generalization of the method of stereographic projection which produces a correspondence between the complex plane and the unit sphere.

Keywords: Unit Ball; Unit Sphere; Elliptical Geometry; Parabolic Geometry; Stereographic Projection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8136-5_6

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