English

Strengthened Euler's Inequality in Spherical and Hyperbolic Geometries

Metric Geometry 2025-11-19 v1

Abstract

Euler's inequality is a well known inequality relating the inradius and circumradius of a triangle. In Euclidean geometry, this inequality takes the form R2rR \geq 2r where RR is the circumradius and rr is the inradius. In spherical geometry, the inequality takes the form tan(R)2tan(r)\tan(R) \geq 2\tan(r) as proved in \cite{MPV}; similary, we have tanh(R)2tanh(r)\tanh(R) \geq 2\tanh(r) for hyperbolic triangles (see \cite{SV} for proof). In Euclidean geometry, this inequality can be strengthened as discussed in \cite{SV}. We prove an analogous version of this strengthened inequality which holds in spherical geometry, as well as an additional strengthening of Euler's inequality which holds in Euclidean geometry and can be generalized into both spherical and hyperbolic geometry.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.05373,
  title  = {Strengthened Euler's Inequality in Spherical and Hyperbolic Geometries},
  author = {Ren Guo and Estonia Black and Caleb Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05373},
  year   = {2025}
}