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JOURNALS // Buletinul Academiei de Ştiinţe a Republicii Moldova. Matematica // Archive

Bul. Acad. Ştiinţe Repub. Mold. Mat., 2020 Number 2, Pages 44–61 (Mi basm532)

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Interior angle sums of geodesic triangles in $\mathbf{S^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ and $\mathbf{H^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ geometries

Jenő Szirmai

Budapest University of Technology and Economics Institute of Mathematics, Department of Geometry, Budapest, P. O. Box: 91, H-1521

Abstract: In the present paper we study $\mathbf{S^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ and $\mathbf{H^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ geometries, which are homogeneous Thurston $3$-geometries. We analyse the interior angle sums of geodesic triangles in both geometries and we prove that in $\mathbf{S^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ space it can be larger than or equal to $\pi$ and in $\mathbf{H^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ space the angle sums can be less than or equal to $\pi$. This proof is a new direct approach to the issue and it is based on the projective model of $\mathbf{S^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ and $\mathbf{H^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ geometries described by E. Molnár in [7].

Keywords and phrases: thurston geometries, $\mathbf{S^2}\times\mathbf{R}$, $\mathbf{H^2}\times\mathbf{R}$ geometries, geodesic triangles, interior angle sum.

MSC: 53A20, 53A35, 52C35, 53B20

Received: 25.01.2020

Language: English



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