Problem about alternate angle on poincare disc model.

560 Views Asked by At

If two alternate angles are same, two poincare lines are parallel.

(i.e. If two poincare lines cut by a transversal have a pair of congruent alternate interior angles, then the two poincare lines are parallel.)

I want to show this statement by using poincare disc model.

I think the converse is false.

Is there someone to help?

The following figure is just a supplementary figure from 'Points, Lines, and Triangles in Hyperbolic Geometry'.

enter image description here

1

There are 1 best solutions below

0
On BEST ANSWER

Assume that in your graphic, $\measuredangle WVS = \measuredangle WVP = \alpha$. Then $\measuredangle QWV = \pi-\alpha$ since $\measuredangle QWP=\pi$. If the rays $VS$ and $WQ$ were to meet, they would form a triangle. Two of its interior angles would be $\measuredangle WVS=\alpha$ and $\measuredangle QWV=\pi-\alpha$, which already add up to $\pi$. Since the angle sum in a hyperbolic triangle is less than $\pi$ (as you know), and an interior angle cannot be negative, there can be no such triangle. The same argument holds for the rays $VR$ and $WP$, so the lines can't meet on that side of $VW$ either. Since the lines can't meet on either side, they have to be parallel.