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The Gauss–Bonnet formula for convex hyperbolic polygons with ideal vertices #

The invariant area of a convex hyperbolic polygon with n vertices in ℍ ∪ ∂ℍ and interior angles α₀, …, αₙ₋₁ (with αᵢ = 0 at an ideal vertex) is (n - 2) π - (α₀ + ⋯ + αₙ₋₁) (ConvexPolygon.volume_carrier). In particular the area is finite (ConvexPolygon.volume_carrier_ne_top), the angle sum is at most (n - 2) π (ConvexPolygon.sum_interiorAngle_le), an ideal polygon has area (n - 2) π, and an ideal triangle has area π.

A polygon without ideal vertices is a compact convex polygon, whose area is CompactConvexPolygon.volume_carrier. A polygon with an ideal vertex has the area and angle sum of a convex polygon whose vertex 0 is ∞ (ConvexPolygon.exists_vertex_zero_eq_infty). For such a polygon the area of the part of the carrier to the left of the vertical through vertex k is the sum of the areas of the first k - 1 triangles of the fan from ∞ (ConvexPolygon.volume_carrier_inter_re_le_of_vertex_zero), and the angle sum is the sum of the finite angles of these triangles (ConvexPolygon.sum_interiorAngle_eq_of_vertex_zero). In these statements the vertices are indexed by natural numbers k, cast to Fin n under open Fin.NatCast.

Main results #

Source #

Walkden, Hyperbolic geometry (MATH32051 lecture notes, Manchester 2019), Theorem 7.2.1 and Remark 2 after it (an ideal triangle has area π), Theorem 7.2.2 and its proof ("Cut up P into triangles. Apply Theorem 7.2.1 to each triangle and then sum the areas."), with ideal vertices as in §7.1; Katok, Fuchsian groups, geodesic flows…, Clay Math. Proc. 10 (2010), Theorem 5.4.

A polygon with an ideal vertex at ∞ #

If vertex 0 is ∞, the angle sum is the sum of the finite angles of the triangles of the fan from ∞, indexed by the casts to Fin n of the natural numbers 1 ≤ k < n - 1.

If vertex 0 is ∞, the area of the part of the carrier to the left of the vertical through vertex k, for 0 < k < n, is the sum of the areas π - αⱼ - βⱼ of the first k - 1 triangles of the fan from ∞, where αⱼ, βⱼ are the angles of the j-th triangle at vertex j and vertex (j + 1).

The Gauss–Bonnet formula for a convex polygon whose vertex 0 is ∞.

The angular defect of a convex polygon whose vertex 0 is ∞ is nonnegative.

Gauss–Bonnet #

The Gauss–Bonnet formula for convex hyperbolic polygons with ideal vertices: the area of a convex polygon with n vertices in ℍ ∪ ∂ℍ is (n - 2) π minus the sum of its interior angles, the angle at an ideal vertex being 0. Source: Walkden, Hyperbolic geometry (MATH32051), Theorem 7.2.2 and §7.1.

The angular defect of a convex polygon is nonnegative: the sum of its interior angles is at most (n - 2) π.

The area of a convex polygon, as a real number, is its angular defect.

An ideal polygon, with all n vertices on ∂ℍ, has area (n - 2) π.

An ideal triangle has area π. Source: Walkden, Hyperbolic geometry (MATH32051), Remark 2 after Theorem 7.2.1.

A triangle with two ideal vertices has area π - α, for its angle α at the third vertex.