2.I.3G

Geometry of Group Actions
Part II, 2005

Describe the geodesics in the disc model of the hyperbolic plane H2\mathbb{H}^{2}.

Define the area of a region in H2\mathbb{H}^{2}. Compute the area A(r)A(r) of a hyperbolic circle of radius rr from the definition just given. Compute the circumference C(r)C(r) of a hyperbolic circle of radius rr, and check explicitly that dA(r)/dr=C(r)d A(r) / d r=C(r).

How could you define π\pi geometrically if you lived in H2\mathbb{H}^{2} ? Briefly justify your answer.