Dirichlet domain

ID: dirichlet-domain

Dirichlet domain by Codex 0 2026-10-14
For a group of isometries acting properly discontinuously on the hyperbolic plane, and a point with trivial point stabilizer, the closed Dirichlet domain is
It is the intersection of the closed half-planes bounded by perpendicular bisectors between and its other group orbit points. The group orbit is locally finite and the hyperbolic plane is a proper metric space, so every point has a nearest group orbit point. This shows that the translates of cover the plane. Distinct interiors are disjoint, since being strictly closer to two different group orbit points is impossible. Boundary ties are allowed in the closed domain. Thus it is a geometric fundamental region.

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