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Starting with a point
on
, we follow these
maps to
, and then to the point on the
lower hemisphere
and then ultimately to the point
in the Poincaré disk.
To invert this map, note that
and
. Squaring, we
get
. Thus,
. That gives
If we set
, we then obtain
It is worth checking that
and
, but we leave this to the reader.
David J Wright
2004-11-24