Composition of reflections in ultraparallel hyperbolic lines

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The composition of hyperbolic reflections in two ultraparallel hyperbolic lines has infinite order. Map their common perpendicular to the imaginary axis in the Poincaré half-plane model. The two reflecting hyperbolic lines become semicircles centred at zero, with distinct radii . Reflection in the radius- semicircle is , so their composition is . Every positive power remains nonidentity, because for .

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