A hyperbolic distance identity for intersections of lines in the Poincaré disk

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Let a,b,c,da,b,c,d be four complex points on the unit circle S1S^1 in this order, with the Euclidean lines L(a,b)L(a,b) and L(c,d)L(c,d) nonparallel. Let hh be an arbitrary point on the Euclidean segment [b,c][b,c]. Define

g=LIS[a,b,c,d],j=LIS[g,h,a,c],k=LIS[g,h,b,d],l=LIS[g,h,a,d].g={\rm LIS}[a,b,c,d],\qquad j={\rm LIS}[g,h,a,c],\qquad k={\rm LIS}[g,h,b,d],\qquad l={\rm LIS}[g,h,a,d].

Here LIS{\rm LIS} denotes the line-intersection construction used in the paper, and the special case j=kj=k is allowed. Hyperbolic distance identity. The hyperbolic distances in the Poincaré disk satisfy

ρB2(h,j)=ρB2(k,l).\rho_{\mathbb{B}^2}(h,j)=\rho_{\mathbb{B}^2}(k,l).

This is a metric relation for the line-intersection construction associated with four cyclic points. The supplied text does not establish whether the statement is proved or remains open.

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Masayo Fujimura, Oona Rainio and Matti Vuorinen, “Collinearity of points on Poincaré unit disk and Riemann sphere”, arXiv:2212.09037 (2024).

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