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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ib Paper 1 11E c Solution by
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An isometry sends the geodesic through to the imaginary axis and sends the two points to and for some . The transformationbelongs to and exchanges with . Conjugating it back gives an orientation-preserving isometry exchanging and .
For uniqueness, the quotient of two such isometries fixes both and . An orientation-preserving hyperbolic isometry fixing two distinct interior points fixes their connecting geodesic and both tangent directions there, hence is the identity. Therefore the exchanging isometry is unique; geometrically it is the hyperbolic half-turn about the midpoint of the segment .
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