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Seeing Through Hyperbolic Space: Visibility for $\lambda$-Geodesic Hyperplanes

Probability 2026-03-05 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study visibility from a fixed point in the presence of a Poisson process of λ\lambda--geodesic hyperplanes in a dd-dimensional hyperbolic space. The family of λ\lambda--geodesic hyperplanes interpolates between totally geodesic hyperplanes and horospheres. Our main result establishes a universality principle for this model: we prove that the fundamental visibility properties are invariant with respect to the parameter λ[0,1]\lambda\in[0,1]. Namely, there is a critical intensity γcrit>0\gamma_{\mathrm{crit}}>0 such that the visible region is unbounded with positive probability for γ<γcrit\gamma < \gamma_{\mathrm{crit}} and almost surely bounded for γ>γcrit\gamma > \gamma_{\mathrm{crit}}. For d=2d=2 we establish almost sure boundedness also at criticality. The value for γcrit\gamma_{\mathrm{crit}} is explicit and does not depend on λ\lambda. In the bounded phase, we show that the mean visible volume is identical with the known formula for λ=0\lambda=0. The key integral-geometric step is an explicit computation showing that the measure of λ\lambda-geodesic hyperplanes hitting a geodesic segment is a linear function of the length of the segment, independent of~λ\lambda.

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@article{arxiv.2602.20935,
  title  = {Seeing Through Hyperbolic Space: Visibility for $\lambda$-Geodesic Hyperplanes},
  author = {Zakhar Kabluchko and Vanessa Mattutat and Christoph Thaele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20935},
  year   = {2026}
}