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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 ib Paper 3 14B Solution by
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In the upper half-plane model, hyperbolic lines are vertical Euclidean rays and semicircles centred on the real axis, equivalently circle arcs meeting the real boundary orthogonally. A semicircle with endpoints is mapped to the imaginary axis byIts determinant is one, and its real endpoints map to . A vertical line is mapped to the imaginary axis by . Thus every hyperbolic line can be carried to a fixed one; composing one such map with the inverse of another proves transitivity of on the lines.
Reflection in is . Reflection in the unit semicircle is . The latter fixes the semicircle pointwise, is an involution, and preserves the hyperbolic metric because and . The vertical reflection similarly preserves . Their composition in the specified order is
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