Volumes of balls in large Riemannian manifolds (Q640736)

The author proves two important lower bounds for the volumes of balls in a Riemannian manifold: (1) For each dimension \(n\), there is a number \(\delta(n)>0\) such that the following estimate holds: If \((M^n,g)\) is a complete Riemannian manifold with filling radius at least \(R\), then it contains a ball of radius \(R\) and volume at least \(\delta(n)R^n\). (2) For each dimension \(n\), there is a number \(\delta(n)>0\) such that the following estimate holds: If \((M^n,\text{hyp})\) is a closed hyperbolic manifold and if \(g\) is another metric on \(M\) with volume not greater than \(\delta(n)\text{Vol}(M,\text{hyp})\), then the universal cover of \((M,g)\) contains a unit ball with volume greater than the volume of a unit ball in hyperbolic \(n\)-space.