# Strengthened Euler's Inequality in Spherical and Hyperbolic Geometries

**Authors:** Ren Guo, Estonia Black, Caleb Smith

arXiv: 1704.05373 · 2025-11-19

## TL;DR

This paper extends and strengthens Euler's inequality relating inradius and circumradius from Euclidean geometry to spherical and hyperbolic geometries, providing new inequalities that hold in these non-Euclidean contexts.

## Contribution

It introduces a new strengthened version of Euler's inequality applicable to spherical and hyperbolic geometries, generalizing known Euclidean results.

## Key findings

- Established a strengthened inequality in spherical geometry.
- Proved an additional inequality valid in Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic geometries.
- Generalized Euler's inequality across different geometric contexts.

## 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 $R \geq 2r$ where $R$ is the circumradius and $r$ is the inradius. In spherical geometry, the inequality takes the form $\tan(R) \geq 2\tan(r)$ as proved in \cite{MPV}; similary, we have $\tanh(R) \geq 2\tanh(r)$ 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.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1704.05373