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The systolic constant of orientable Bieberbach 3-manifolds

Chady El Mir, Jacques Lafontaine (2013)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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 3 -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 ( C 2 ) which...

Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding

Michael Eastwood (2014)

Archivum Mathematicum

The standard conformal compactification of Euclidean space is the round sphere. We use conformal geodesics to give an elementary proof that this is the only possible conformal compactification.

Upper bounds on the length of a shortest closed geodesic and quantitative Hurewicz theorem

Alexander Nabutovsky, Regina Rotman (2003)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

In this paper we present two upper bounds on the length of a shortest closed geodesic on compact Riemannian manifolds. The first upper bound depends on an upper bound on sectional curvature and an upper bound on the volume of the manifold. The second upper bound will be given in terms of a lower bound on sectional curvature, an upper bound on the diameter and a lower bound on the volume. The related questions that will also be studied are the following: given a contractible k -dimensional sphere...

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