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Short loops in surfaces with a circle boundary component

Differential Geometry 2016-02-03 v1

Abstract

It is a classical theorem of Loewner that the systole of a Riemannian torus can be bounded in terms of its area. We answer a question of a similar flavor of Robert Young showing that if TT is a Riemannian 2-torus with boundary in Rn\mathbb R ^n, such that the boundary curve is a standard unit circle, then the length of the shortest non-contractible loop in TT is bounded in terms of the area of TT.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00854,
  title  = {Short loops in surfaces with a circle boundary component},
  author = {Panos Papasoglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00854},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages

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