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Wide short geodesic loops on closed Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-10-07 v1

Abstract

It is not known whether or not the lenth of the shortest periodic geodesic on a closed Riemannian manifold MnM^n can be majorized by c(n)vol1nc(n) vol^{ 1 \over n}, or c~(n)d\tilde{c}(n)d, where nn is the dimension of MnM^n, volvol denotes the volume of MnM^n, and dd denotes its diameter. In this paper we will prove that for each ϵ>0\epsilon >0 one can find such estimates for the length of a geodesic loop with with angle between πϵ\pi-\epsilon and π\pi with an explicit constant that depends both on nn and ϵ\epsilon. That is, let ϵ>0\epsilon > 0, and let a=1sin(ϵ2)+1a = \lceil{ {1 \over {\sin ({\epsilon \over 2})}}} \rceil+1 . We will prove that there exists a "wide" (i.e. with an angle that is wider than πϵ\pi-\epsilon) geodesic loop on MnM^n of length at most 2n!and2n!a^nd. We will also show that there exists a "wide" geodesic loop of length at most 2(n+1)!2a(n+1)3FillRad2n(n+1)!2a(n+1)3vol1n2(n+1)!^2a^{(n+1)^3} FillRad \leq 2 \cdot n(n+1)!^2a^{(n+1)^3} vol^{1 \over n}. Here FillRadFillRad is the Filling Radius of MnM^n.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01772,
  title  = {Wide short geodesic loops on closed Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Regina Rotman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01772},
  year   = {2019}
}