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Plane-section geodesics of the unit one-sheet hyperboloid
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Plane-section geodesics of the unit one-sheet hyperboloid
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Created
2026-09-24
Updated
2026-09-24
On
x
2
+
y
2
=
z
2
+
1
, an axial
plane
such
as
y
=
0
cuts out two disjoint meridian
geodesics
. The
tangent
plane
x
=
1
cuts out the two straight ruling lines
y
=
±
z
, which are
geodesics
meeting orthogonally at
(
1
,
0
,
0
)
.
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