On the systole of the sphere in the proximity of the standard metric (Q861670)
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On the systole of the sphere in the proximity of the standard metric (English)
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30 January 2007
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The systolic area of a 2-sphere endowed with a smooth Riemannian metric and bounded from below by a positive constant, admits the standard metric \(g_0\) as a critical point. It is shown that for each tangent direction to the space of metrics at \(g_0\) there exists a variation along which the systolic area can increase.
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critical point
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2-sphere
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standard metric
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systole
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Zoll metric
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