# The third fundamentional Mobius transformation in the Poincare half plane [closed]

I was thinking about rewriting https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyperbolic_motion&oldid=738425823

(the article is a bit in chaos at the moment)

And that started me puzzeling with the three fundamental hyperbolic motions of the poincare half plane

in this version they are given as:

• $p \to q = (x + c, y ), c \in R$(left or right shift)
• $p \to q = (sx, sy ), s > 0$ (dilation)
• $p \to q = ( r^{−1} \cos a, r^{−1} \sin a )$ (inversion in unit semicircle).

And my puzzeling made me think that the third of them is wrong

Now I am looking for more advanced mathematicians that can tell me that i am right or wrong and especially why.

I think his motion is not orientation preserving.

To make the motion orientation preserving it should be: $$(r \cos a \ , \ r \sin a) \to ( - r^{-1} \cos a \ , \ r^{-1} \sin a )$$

Also when I start it to imagine it as an ordinary Mobius transformation:

For the halfplane $( y > 0 \ z=0 )$ to be projected to itself the point of projection must be in the y= 0 plane

so one option is:

• the Mobius sphere is a sphere of radius 1 above the origin centered around (0,0,1)
• if P is the original point on the $z = 0$ and $y > 0$ half plane
• A is the point where the segment P -(0,0,2) intersects the Mobius sphere (where the point P is projected on the mobius sphere)

• $A'$ is the rotation of $A$ a half turn around the $y = 0$ and $z = 1$ axis

• $P'$ is the projection of $A'$ from (0,0,2) to the the $z = 0$ plane

And with this the point P' ends at at the other side of the x=0 plane as P.

So should the formula not be $$(r \cos a\ , \ r \sin a) \to ( - r^{-1} \cos a \ , \ r^{-1} \sin a )$$

(circle inversion followed by an reflection in the x=0 ray) or why am I wrong here?

## closed as unclear what you're asking by Lee Mosher, John B, C. Falcon, Daniel W. Farlow, RohanDec 23 '16 at 6:34

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• To my eyes you wrote -1/z, which maps the upperhalf plane to itself. – Charlie Frohman Dec 21 '16 at 21:57
• Your question is unclear. You've given a formula for a function, but then you've asked if it should be a different formula instead. Well, those two formulas define different functions, and without more information there's not much more to be said. – Lee Mosher Dec 22 '16 at 13:36