For a group of isometries acting properly discontinuously on the hyperbolic plane, and a point with trivial point stabilizer, the closed Dirichlet domain is
It is the intersection of the closed half-planes bounded by perpendicular bisectors between and its other group orbit points. The group orbit is locally finite and the hyperbolic plane is a proper metric space, so every point has a nearest group orbit point. This shows that the translates of cover the plane. Distinct interiors are disjoint, since being strictly closer to two different group orbit points is impossible. Boundary ties are allowed in the closed domain. Thus it is a geometric fundamental region.
Consider determinant-one matrices over Gaussian integers with , modulo their common sign. They act on the Poincare disc model by fractional linear maps. Their origin-centered Dirichlet domain is
For a nonidentity matrix set and . The group orbit point is and its bisector inequality is . Since , integrality gives , so the four inequalities defining imply all of them. They are necessary because the matrices with , realize the four combinations . The four sides are arcs of the unit-radius circles centered at , and the ideal vertices are .

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