 Parabolic isometry of the hyperbolic plane (source code)

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= Parabolic isometry of the hyperbolic plane
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A nonidentity orientation-preserving isometry of the <hyperbolic plane> is parabolic when it has one fixed point on the ideal boundary and none in the plane. In the <upper half-plane model>, every parabolic isometry is conjugate to a nonzero horizontal translation.

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