Lower and upper bounds for the waists of different spaces (Q2335882)

Several new results around Gromov's waist theorem are established. A simple proof of Vaaler's theorem on sections of the unit cube using the Borsuk-Ulam-Crofton technique is given. Many of the results obtained are concerned with the waist measured by the Minkowski content. Waist inequalities in terms of topological invariants of the space of cycles of a space are established with the focus on the space of cycles of spheres, balls, and cubes. Waists of real and complex projective spaces, flat tori, convex bodies in Euclidean space are considered. Waist-type results in terms of the Hausdorff measure are established. The classical result of Lebesgue is generalized in the following way: we prove that there exist \(\varepsilon_{n,\delta}0\), such that for every finite covering of the cube \([0,1]^n\) by a family of closed sets \(\{C_i\}\) so that each set \(C_i\) intersects at most \(\delta\) of the other sets, there exists \(k\in\{0,\ldots, n\}\), and indices \(i_0i_1\dotsi_k\) such that \(\mathcal{H}^{n-k}(C_{i_0}\cap \dots \cap C_{i_k}) \varepsilon_{n,\delta}\), where \(\mathcal{H}^{n-k}\) denotes the \((n-k)\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure.