The hyperbolic plane affords a rich design space, which can be leveraged to create elastic lattices characterized by boundary-dominated vibrational spectra. Such elastic hyperbolic lattices are made by projecting nodes of a regular tessellation of curved hyperbolic space onto a flat space to define lattice sites which are then connected by simple linkages. Dynamically, these systems are useful for the protection of bulk material from boundary-incident perturbations. The lattice achieves this by guiding waves around its dense boundary rather than towards its sparsely populated bulk, accessing modes from its boundary-dominated spectrum to steer vibrations along its perimeter. We confirm the boundary-dominated spectrum and edge-confined wave propagation via numerical simulation and experimental validation. This elastic hyperbolic lattice introduces an experimentally-feasible approach to generating mechanical systems with boundary-dominated states, reminiscent of recent topologically protected edge-states in quantum systems.
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