The volume and lengths on a three sphere (Q1866521)

The author shows that the volume of any Riemannian metric on a three sphere is bounded below by the length of the shortest closed curve that links its antipodal image. More precisely, let \(L(g)\) represent the length of the shortest nonconstant closed geodesic in \((S^3,g)\) and denote by \(A\) an ``antipodal map'', on an \(n\)-sphere, i.e., an order 2, fixed point free diffeomorphism. Let \(D(g,A)= \inf_{x\in S^3} d(x,Ax)\), and \(D(g) = \sup_A D(g,A)\). Then, for any Riemannian metric on \(S^3\): \[ \text{Vol}(g)^{\frac 1 3}\geq C_1 \min\{L(g),2D(g)\} \] where \(C_1\) is a universal constant (which can be taken to be \(\frac 1 {3180}\)). For the proof, Gromov's filling radius theorem is used: \(\text{FillRad}(g) \leq c_n \text{ Vol}(g)^{1/n},\) which holds for all \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with some constant \(c_n\) depending only on the dimension (for \(n=3\), \(c_3<265\)) [\textit{M. Gromov}, J. Differ. Geom. 18, 1-147 (1983; Zbl 0515.53037)].