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Bavard's systolically extremal Klein bottles and three dimensional applications

Differential Geometry 2020-12-29 v2

Abstract

A compact manifold is called Bieberbach if it carries a flat Riemannian metric. Bieberbach manifolds satisfy an isosystolic inequality by a general and fundamental result of M. Gromov. In dimension 3, there exist four classes of non-orientable Bieberbach manifolds up to an affine diffeomorphism. In this paper, We prove the existence on each diffeomorphism class of non-orientable Bieberbach 3-manifolds of a two-parameter family of singular Riemannian metrics that are systolically extremal in their conformal class. The proof uses a one-parameter family of singular Riemannian metrics on the Klein bottle discovered by C. Bavard (\cite{bavard88}): each one of these metrics is extremal in its conformal class.

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@article{arxiv.1007.0877,
  title  = {Bavard's systolically extremal Klein bottles and three dimensional applications},
  author = {Chady El Mir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.0877},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures

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