Generalized Poincaré Half-Planes

Abstract

In this note, we give some generalisations of the classical Poincaré upper half-plane, which is the most popular model of hyperbolic plane geometry. For this, we replace the circular arcs by elliptical arcs with center on the $x-$axis, and foci on the $x-$axis or on the lines perpendicular to the $x-$axis at the center, in the upper half-plane. Thus, we obtain a class of generalized upper half-planes with infinite number of members. Furthermore we show that every generalized Poincaré upper half-plane geometry is a neutral geometry satisfying the hyperbolic axiom. That is, it satisfies also all axioms of the Euclidean plane geometry except the parallelism.

10 pages, 3 figures