Contracting thin disks

DOI10.1142/S1793525319500377MaRDI QIDQ5213510zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Panos Papasoglu

Publication date 3 February 2020

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2967

zbMATH Keywords

areadiameterisoperimetric inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We answer a question of Liokumovich-Nabutovsky-Rotman showing that if D is a Riemannian 2-disc with boundary length L, diameter d and area A << d then D can be filled by a homotopy where the lengths of the intermediate curves are bounded by $L+2d+O(sqrtA)$.

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