Coxeter decompositions of hyperbolic polygons the sum of the angles of a hyperbolic triangle is less than 180 degrees. Coxeter decompositions are named after Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, an accomplished 20th century geometer. He introduced the Coxeter group, an abstract group generated by reflections. These groups have many uses, including producing the rotations of Platonic solids and tessellating the plane. Given a polygon "P", a group "G" can be generated by reflecting "P" around its sides. If the angles of "P" are /"k" for natural numbers "k", then "G" will be discrete. A Coxeter decomposition of a polygon is a decomposition into a finite number
Hyperbolic triangle scale is most convenient if the lengths are measured in terms of the absolute length (a special unit of length analogous to a relations between distances in spherical geometry). This choice for this length scale makes formulas simpler. In terms of the Poincaré half-plane model absolute length corresponds to the infinitesimal metric formula_1 and in the Poincaré disk model to formula_2. In terms of the (constant and negative) Gaussian curvature of a hyperbolic plane, a unit of absolute length corresponds to a length of In a hyperbolic triangle the sum of the angles "A", "B", "C" (respectively opposite to the