Local polygon pieces around a vertex cycle #
Following the side pairings from vertex j transports it to next^[m] j by
partialCycleMap j m. Pulling the polygon at that vertex back by the inverse partial product
therefore gives a tile meeting the original vertex. Near a finite vertex, any finite union of
these tiles agrees with the union of their pulled-back vertex sectors. In particular, the
sector union contains a neighbourhood exactly when the tile union does. This reduces local
vertex coverage to the angular geometry of the incident sectors, without assuming a cycle
angle condition or coverage.
Consecutive sectors lie on opposite sides of their common supporting geodesic. The construction allows partial products extending beyond a full cycle, as needed when several circuits are required around an elliptic vertex.
References #
Beardon, The Geometry of Discrete Groups, Chapter 9. Walkden, Hyperbolic geometry, §§17 and 19–20 (vertex cycles and the local tessellation in Poincaré's polygon theorem).
Successive pulled-back sectors are separated by the supporting geodesic of the side leaving the current vertex.
The interiors of consecutive vertex sectors are disjoint, including when a side is paired with itself.
In the common coordinate at the initial vertex, each sector misses the interior of the preceding sector. This is adjacent-sector separation, without a claim about nonadjacent sectors.
Near the initial finite vertex, every tile in a vertex cycle equals its pulled-back sector. This holds also for partial products extending beyond one circuit.
A finite fan of tiles along a vertex cycle locally equals its fan of sectors.
The cycle tiles cover a neighbourhood of a finite vertex if and only if their sectors cover one. No angular coverage is assumed in deriving this equivalence.