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In mathematics, the Poincaré metric, named after Henri Poincaré, is the metric tensor describing a two-dimensional surface of constant negative curvature. It is the natural metric commonly used in a variety of calculations in hyperbolic geometry or Riemann surfaces. There are three equivalent representations commonly used in two-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. One is the Poincaré half-plane model, defining a model of hyperbolic space on the upper half-plane. The Poincaré disk model defines a model for hyperbolic space on the unit disk. The disk and the upper half plane are related by a conformal map, and isometries are given by Möbius transformations. A third representation is on the punctured disk, where relations for q-analogues are sometimes expressed. These various forms are reviewed below. ==Overview of metrics on Riemann surfaces== A metric on the complex plane may be generally expressed in the form : where λ is a real, positive function of and . The length of a curve γ in the complex plane is thus given by : The area of a subset of the complex plane is given by : where is the exterior product used to construct the volume form. The determinant of the metric is equal to , so the square root of the determinant is . The Euclidean volume form on the plane is and so one has : A function is said to be the potential of the metric if : The Laplace–Beltrami operator is given by : The Gaussian curvature of the metric is given by : This curvature is one-half of the Ricci scalar curvature. Isometries preserve angles and arc-lengths. On Riemann surfaces, isometries are identical to changes of coordinate: that is, both the Laplace–Beltrami operator and the curvature are invariant under isometries. Thus, for example, let ''S'' be a Riemann surface with metric and ''T'' be a Riemann surface with metric . Then a map : with is an isometry if and only if it is conformal and if :. Here, the requirement that the map is conformal is nothing more than the statement : that is, : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poincaré metric」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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