 Parabolic element of PSL2(R) (source code)

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= Parabolic element of PSL2(R)
{title2=$|\operatorname{tr}A|=2,\quad A\ne\pm I$}

= Parabolic Möbius transformation
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A nonidentity real <Möbius transformation> represented by $A\in\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb R)$ with $|\operatorname{tr}A|=2$. It has one ideal boundary fixed point and is conjugate to a nonzero translation on the <Poincare half-plane model>.

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