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JOURNALS // Sibirskie Èlektronnye Matematicheskie Izvestiya [Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports] // Archive

Sib. Èlektron. Mat. Izv., 2012 Volume 9, Pages 247–255 (Mi semr352)

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Geometry and topology

Brahmagupta formula for cyclic quadrilaterals in the hyperbolic plane

A. D. Mednykhab

a Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
b Novosibirsk State University

Abstract: The Heron formula relates the area of an Euclidean triangle to its side lengths. Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta, in the seventh century, gave the analogous formulas for a convex cyclic quadrilateral. Several non-Euclidean versions of the Heron theorem have been known for a long time.
In this paper we consider a convex hyperbolic quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, horocycle or one branch of an equidistant curve. This is a natural hyperbolic analog of the cyclic quadrilateral in the Euclidean plane. We find a few versions of the Brahmahupta formula for such quadrilaterals.

Keywords: Heron formula, Brahmagupta formula, cyclic polygon, hyperbolic quadrilateral.

UDC: 514.13

MSC: 51M09

Received January 15, 2012, published May 12, 2012

Language: English



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