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Usually, a Poincaré Ball is given as the set
$
mathbbD^n = x in mathbbR^n :
$

Let $g_E,x$ be the Euclidean Riemannian metric induced at $x in mathbbR^n$ -- in that case, $g_E,x = I_n$ for all $x$(i.e. it can be represented as the identity matrix), so that the inner product in Euclidean space is just the normal Euclidean inner product we are used to (i.e. if $T_xmathbbR^N$ is the tangent space of $mathbbR^n$ at $x$, and $u,v$ are vectors in that tangent space, then our inner-product is just $g_E,x(u,v) = u^TI_nv = u^Tv = langle u,v rangle$).

The metric used in the Poincaré ball, $g_mathbbD^n$ is conformal to the Euclidean metric because it preserves angles. In other words, for some $x in mathbbD^n$, and some $u,v in T_xmathbbD^n$, we have that

$$
g_mathbbD^n,x(u,v) = lambda_x^2g_E,x(u,v)
$$
And that $lambda_x$ is called the conformal factor; for the Poincaré ball metric, it is
$$
lambda_x = frac2^2
$$

In my understanding, this conformal factor shows that in the Poincaré ball looks locally like $mathbbR^n$ near the origin and has similar distances, but that near the border, the distances become really huge for even small deviations in where $x$ is located.

This works for the unit Poincaré disk. What I am looking for is the conformal factor for the Poincaré disk of some radius $r > 0$ where $r$ is not necessarily equal to 1.

This particular Poincaré disk can be represented as
$$
mathbbD_r^n = x
$$
and in this case,

$$
g_mathbbD_r^n,x(u,v) = (lambda_x^r)^2g_E,x(u,v)
$$

What is $lambda_x^r$? My guess would be
$$
lambda_x^r = frac2^2
$$

Is this correct? And even if it is, can anybody explain why? An explanation of this would go a long way toward helping me to understand the Poincaré disk a lot better.

An open ball of radius $r$ corresponds to $$lVert xrVert<r$$ or equivalently (for $r>0$) $$fraclVert xrVert^2r^2<1$$ not $$r,lVert xrVert^2<1$$ as you wrote it. In other words, wherever you use $lVert xrVert$ in the unit ball setup, you'd use $lVert xrVert/r$ in the arbitrary radius setup. Thus you'd have $$lambda_x^r=frac21-fraclVert xrVert^2r^2=frac2r^2r^2-lVert xrVert^2;.$$

Note that as long as you still multiply this by $g_E,x$, you still get lengths which are scaled by a factor of $r$ compared to the unit ball. Which in turn means that the curvature of your hyperbolic plane will have a Gaussian curvature not of $-1$ but of $-frac1r^2$. If you want to have the standard $-1$ curvature, better use $$lambda_x^r=frac2rr^2-lVert xrVert^2$$ to correct for the scale inside $g_E,x$. But in that case you essentially have a unit ball model drawn at a larger scale, and the radius you used to draw it has no impact any more on the geometry within the model. Which might be desirable but might also make this consideration boring.