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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 33-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 (C2C_2) 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