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For $x\ge 1$, the inverse hyperbolic cosine on its nonnegative real branch is $\mathrm{arcosh}x=\log (x+\sqrt{x^2-1})$. It is the real cosine member of the inverse hyperbolic functions.

The multivalued inverse hyperbolic sine consists of all solutions of $\sinh w=z$. If $w_0$ is any one solution, every solution isTo see this, put $t=e^w$ in the hyperbolic sine definition. The equation becomes $t^2-2zt-1=0$, whose nonzero roots are $z\pm \sqrt{z^2+1}$. Their product is $-1$. Thus if one root is $e^{w_0}$, the other is $-e^{-w_0}$; all values of the complex logarithm give precisely the two displayed families.

A chosen local branch of a multivalued function is often written $\mathrm{Arcsinh}z$. Its branch points occur at $z=\pm i$, where the two quadratic roots coincide. This is a member of the inverse hyperbolic functions, rather than an inverse of the ordinary sine.^[ref]

Split the integral intoThe first is the standard antiderivative $\mathrm{arsinh}x=\ln (x+\sqrt{1+x^2})$ from the inverse hyperbolic functions. For the second, the substitution rule $t=1+x^2$ gives $\frac{1}{2}\int t^{-1/2}dt=\sqrt{1+x^2}$. HenceThe logarithm's argument is positive for every real $x$.

Rapidity is a dimensionless parameter for a signed collinear velocity $u$ with $|u|<c$, defined using the inverse hyperbolic functions byHere $c$ is the speed of light, and $\tanh$ is the hyperbolic tangent. Zero velocity has zero rapidity; negative velocity has negative rapidity. Every finite real rapidity gives $|u|<c$, while $u\to \pm c$ requires $\theta \to \pm \infty$. Thus a light ray has no finite rapidity in this parametrization. The header's formula uses natural units $c=1$: its $v$ is the numerical velocity $u/c$.

For the inertial frames in the velocity-addition formula, $S^{\prime }$ moves at signed velocity $V$ along the $x$-axis of $S$. Set $\varphi =\mathrm{artanh}(V/c)$. Re-expressing the same particle in the moving inertial frame givesThe subtraction is a passive change of reference frame; the inverse adds the particle's rapidity in $S^{\prime }$ to the frame's rapidity relative to $S$. For example, $V=0.6c$ and $u^{\prime }=0.6c$ give $\varphi ={\theta }^{\prime }=\ln 2$, so $\theta =\ln 4$ and $u=c\tanh (\ln 4)=15c/17$, exactly as in the velocity-addition formula.

For a massive particle of rest mass $m>0$ moving in one spatial dimension, its energy and signed momentum areThe hyperbolic cosine is the particle's Lorentz factor, and the hyperbolic sine is $\gamma u/c$. The hyperbolic Pythagorean identity immediately gives the relativistic energy-momentum relation $E^2-c^2{p}^2=m^2{c}^4$. In the older $c=1$ notation, writing the rest mass as $M$ recovers $v=\tanh \theta$, $E=M\cosh \theta$, and $p=M\sinh \theta$. These expressions use natural units in which the factors of $c$ are numerically one; the preceding formulas restore those factors explicitly. ^[ref].

The useful simplification follows from the hyperbolic-function identity $\tanh (a+b)=(\tanh a+\tanh b)/(1+\tanh a\tanh b)$: the nonlinear velocity-addition formula becomes ordinary addition of rapidities. See iterated collinear boosts with equal rapidity for a plotted example. A common collinear Lorentz boost shifts every rapidity by the same constant, so a rapidity difference is invariant. This makes rapidity useful for relativistic factorized scattering in one spatial dimension, where two-body S-matrices depend on the difference of the incoming rapidities, with particle species fixed.