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On Analogs of Fuhrmann’s Theorem on the Lobachevsky Plane

  • A. V. Kostin

摘要

According to Ptolemy’s theorem, the product of the lengths of the diagonalsof a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle on the Euclidean plane equals the sum of the products of the lengths of oppositesides. This theorem has various generalizations. In one of thegeneralizations on the plane, a quadrilateral is replaced with an inscribed hexagon.In this event the lengths of the sides and long diagonals of aninscribed hexagon is called Ptolemy’s theorem for a hexagon or Fuhrmann’s theorem. Casey’s theoremis another generalization of Ptolemy’s theorem.Four circles tangent to this circle appear instead of four points lying on some fixed circlewhilst the lengths of the sides and diagonals are replaced by the lengths of the segmentstangent to the circles.If the curvature of the Lobachevsky plane is  $ -1 $ , then in the analogs of the theorems of Ptolemy, Fuhrmann and Casey forthe polygons inscribed in a circle or circles tangent to one circle, the lengths of thecorresponding segments, divided by 2, will be under the signs of hyperbolic sines.In this paper, we prove some theorems that generalize Casey’s theorem and Fuhrmann’s theorem on theLobachevsky plane. The theorems involve six circlestangent to some line of constant curvature.We prove the assertions that generalize these theorems forthe lengths of tangent segments. If, in addition to the lengths of the segments ofthe geodesic tangents, we consider the lengths of the arcs of the tangent horocycles,then there is a correspondence between the Euclidean and hyperbolic relations, whichcan be most clearly demonstrated if we take a set of horocycles tangent to one line of constantcurvature on the Lobachevsky plane. In this case, if the length of the segment of the geodesic tangent tothe horocycles is $ t $ , then the length of the “horocyclic” tangent to them is equal to $ \sinh\frac{t}{2} $ . Hence, if the geodesic tangents are connected by a “hyperbolic” relation, then the“horocyclic” tangents will be connected by the corresponding “Euclidean” relation.