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Composition of reflections in ultraparallel hyperbolic lines

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The composition of hyperbolic reflections in two ultraparallel hyperbolic lines has infinite order. Map their common perpendicular to the imaginary axis in the Poincaré half-plane model. The two reflecting hyperbolic lines become semicircles centred at zero, with distinct radii r1​,r2​. Reflection in the radius-r semicircle is z↦r2/z, so their composition is z↦(r2​/r1​)2z. Every positive power remains nonidentity, because (r2​/r1​)2k=1 for k≥1.

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