Ideal triangle

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Three ideal triangles in the Poincare disk model creating an ideal pentagon Ideal circles.svg
Three ideal triangles in the Poincaré disk model creating an ideal pentagon
Two ideal triangles in the Poincare half-plane model IdealTriangle HalfPlane.svg
Two ideal triangles in the Poincaré half-plane model

In hyperbolic geometry an ideal triangle is a hyperbolic triangle whose three vertices all are ideal points. Ideal triangles are also sometimes called triply asymptotic triangles or trebly asymptotic triangles. The vertices are sometimes called ideal vertices. All ideal triangles are congruent.

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Properties

Ideal triangles have the following properties:

In the standard hyperbolic plane (a surface where the constant Gaussian curvature is 1) we also have the following properties:

Distances in an ideal triangle

Dimensions related to an ideal triangle and its incircle, depicted in the Beltrami-Klein model (left) and the Poincare disk model (right) Hyperbolic ideal triangle and its incircle.svg
Dimensions related to an ideal triangle and its incircle, depicted in the Beltrami–Klein model (left) and the Poincaré disk model (right)

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The distance from any point in the triangle to the closest side of the triangle is less than or equal to the radius r above, with equality only for the center of the inscribed circle.
A circle with radius d around a point inside the triangle will meet or intersect at least two sides of the triangle.
a is also the altitude of the Schweikart triangle.

Thin triangle condition

The d-thin triangle condition used in d-hyperbolic space Delta thin triangle condition.svg
The δ-thin triangle condition used in δ-hyperbolic space

Because the ideal triangle is the largest possible triangle in hyperbolic geometry, the measures above are maxima possible for any hyperbolic triangle. This fact is important in the study of δ-hyperbolic space.

Models

In the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane, an ideal triangle is bounded by three circles which intersect the boundary circle at right angles.

In the Poincaré half-plane model, an ideal triangle is modeled by an arbelos, the figure between three mutually tangent semicircles.

In the Beltrami–Klein model of the hyperbolic plane, an ideal triangle is modeled by a Euclidean triangle that is circumscribed by the boundary circle. Note that in the Beltrami-Klein model, the angles at the vertices of an ideal triangle are not zero, because the Beltrami-Klein model, unlike the Poincaré disk and half-plane models, is not conformal i.e. it does not preserve angles.

Real ideal triangle group

The Poincaré disk model tiled with ideal triangles
Infinite-order triangular tiling.svg
The ideal () triangle group
Ideal-triangle hyperbolic tiling.svg
Another ideal tiling

The real ideal triangle group is the reflection group generated by reflections of the hyperbolic plane through the sides of an ideal triangle. Algebraically, it is isomorphic to the free product of three order-two groups (Schwartz 2001).

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