Solution

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Writing the upper cone as gives metric
On any polar branch, the map
pulls this back to , so it is a local isometry. Strictly, because is not -periodic, this formula is globally single-valued on the universal polar cover and locally on ; that is the developing map used here.
An isometry fixing lifts locally to a Euclidean isometry fixing a lift of . Compatibility with the cone's angular identification leaves only the identity and reflection across a radial line. Descending to the cone, these are the identity and reflection in the plane through the cone axis and .

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