PSL2(R) ($PS{L}_2(\mathbb{R})$)

PSL2(R) is $S{L}_2(\mathbb{R})/\{\pm I\}$. It acts on the upper half-plane by the Möbius transformationsand is the group of orientation-preserving hyperbolic isometries.

A real Möbius transformation represented by $A\in {\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{R})$ with $|\mathrm{tr}A|>2$. It has two fixed ideal boundary points and translates along the geodesic joining them; its hyperbolic translation length is $2\mathrm{arcosh}(|\mathrm{tr}A|/2)$. Conjugating by a real Möbius transformation puts it in the form $z\mapsto e^{\ell }z$ with $\ell >0$; its axis is then the imaginary axis.

A real Möbius transformation represented by $A\in {\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{R})$ with $|\mathrm{tr}A|<2$. It fixes a point of the Poincare half-plane model; an integral matrix of this type has trace $0$ or $\pm 1$. In the Poincare disc model, moving its fixed point to zero makes it a rotation about zero.

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

Every orientation-preserving isometry of the Poincare half-plane model lies in $PS{L}_2(\mathbb{R})$. Every orientation-reversing isometry is the composition of one of these with the hyperbolic reflection $z\mapsto -\overline{z}$ in the imaginary axis. Equivalently, the full isometry group consists of real Möbius and anti-Möbius transformations, modulo nonzero scalar matrices.

The group $PS{L}_2(\mathbb{R})$ acts transitively on pairs $(\ell ,P)$ consisting of a hyperbolic line and a point on it. Send the two ideal endpoints of $\ell$ to $0$ and $\infty$, then use a positive dilation to move the resulting point on the imaginary axis to $i$.