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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 4 15E a Solution by
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A Geodesic in the Poincare half-plane model is a vertical line or a semicircle orthogonal to the real axis. Given a hyperbolic line , choose a real Möbius transformation sending its two ideal endpoints to and . After multiplying its representing matrix by a scalar and, if necessary, changing its sign, it represents an element of and sends to the positive imaginary axis .
The chosen point then maps to for some . The dilation , represented byfixes and sends to . Thus every pointed line can be sent to , proving transitivity on pointed hyperbolic lines.
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