Question

Thurston proved that a knot must have this property if it is not a torus knot or a satellite knot. A space with this property has as its orientation-preserving isometries the group of real Möbius transformations with determinant one. Spaces with this property have curves called horocycles, can be modeled in two dimensions by Poincaré’s half-plane and disk, (10[1])and have constant negative curvature. (10[1])This property is the first word in a class of functions derived from the pair “e-to-the-x plus-or-minus e-to-the-negative-x all over (10[1])two.” (10[2])Lobachevsky names a non-Euclidean geometry with this property, which breaks the parallel postulate and has triangles whose angles sum to less than 180 degrees. For 10 points, what property derives from the name of a conic section exemplified by the function one-over-x? ■END■

ANSWER: hyperbolic [accept hyperbola; accept hyperbolic functions or hyperbolic trigonometric functions]
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