# Are the images of the hyperbolic lines hyperbolas under this transformation?

Let $(r,\varphi)$ be a point of the Poincaré disk. Consider the transformation $$(r,\varphi)\mapsto \left(2\ln\left(\frac{1+r}{1-r}\right),\varphi\right)$$ of the Euclidean plane, i.e., change the distance coordinate to the hyperbolic distance. What are the images of hyperbolic lines under this transformation?

I need this to determine the lines of the so-called native model of the hyperbolic plane. I determined the equations of the transformed hyperbolic lines, but they are very complicated and doesn't seem to be "nice" curves. Othervise, my Geogebra experiments show that they look like hyperbolas with asymptotes $OA$ and $OB$, where $A$ and $B$ are the endpoints of the hyperbolic line.

No, they are not hyperbolas. Take two points on the line which connects the ideal points (1,0,0) and (0,1,0) in the Poincaré disk, e.g., $(1-\sqrt{2}/2, 1-\sqrt{2}/2)$ and $(0.2,0.4)$, and transform them. I get $(0.6232, 0.6232)$ and $(0.4304, 0.8608)$. If they were on a hyperbola with asymptotes OX and OY, $xy$ should be constant, and it is not (0.3884 vs 0.3705).