The systolic constant of orientable Bieberbach 3-manifolds
Differential Geometry
2014-03-07 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
A compact manifold is called Bieberbach if it carries a flat Riemannian metric. Bieberbach manifolds are aspherical, therefore the supremum of their systolic ratio, over the set of Riemannian metrics, is finite by a fundamental result of M. Gromov. We study the optimal systolic ratio of compact of -dimensional orientable Bieberbach manifolds which are not tori, and prove that it cannot be realized by a flat metric. We also highlight a metric that we construct on one type of such manifolds () which has interesting geometric properties : it is extremal in its conformal class and the systole is realized by "very many" geodesics.
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@article{arxiv.0912.3894,
title = {The systolic constant of orientable Bieberbach 3-manifolds},
author = {Chady Elmir and Jacques Lafontaine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3894},
year = {2014}
}
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18 pages, 3 figures