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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ib Paper 1 11E a Solution by
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Every orientation-preserving isometry of the Poincare half-plane model has the formwith matrices identified up to multiplication by . Thus .
For , the affine map sends to , proving transitivity on points. Real translations and positive dilations act transitively on finite boundary points, while inversion exchanges and ; hence the action on is transitive. A hyperbolic line is determined by its unordered pair of boundary endpoints, and a real Möbius transformation can send any such pair to . Therefore is also transitive on hyperbolic lines.
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