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Systolic inequalities and minimal hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2009-07-02 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We give a short proof of the systolic inequality for the n-dimensional torus. The proof uses minimal hypersurfaces. It is based on the Schoen-Yau proof that an n-dimensional torus admits no metric of positive scalar curvature.

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@article{arxiv.0903.5299,
  title  = {Systolic inequalities and minimal hypersurfaces},
  author = {Larry Guth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5299},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages. Accepted for publication in GAFA

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