Paper 2, Section II, F
Part IB, 2016
(a) Let be a hyperbolic triangle, with the angle at at least . Show that the side has maximal length amongst the three sides of .
[You may use the hyperbolic cosine formula without proof. This states that if and are the lengths of , and respectively, and and are the angles of the triangle at and respectively, then
(b) Given points in the hyperbolic plane, let be any point on the hyperbolic line segment joining to , and let be any point not on the hyperbolic line passing through . Show that
where denotes hyperbolic distance.
(c) The diameter of a hyperbolic triangle is defined to be
Show that the diameter of is equal to the length of its longest side.