An optimal Loewner-type systolic inequality and harmonic one-forms of constant norm

DOI10.4310/CAG.2004.V12.N3.A8MaRDI QIDQ1884005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Victor Bangert, Mikhail G. Katz

Publication date 22 October 2004

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304494

zbMATH Keywords

conformal systoleflat toriharmonic 1-formsstable systolesystolic inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Differential topology (57R99) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14)

Abstract: We present a new optimal systolic inequality for a closed Riemannian manifold X, which generalizes a number of earlier inequalities, including that of C. Loewner. We characterize the boundary case of equality in terms of the geometry of the Abel-Jacobi map, A_X, of X. For an extremal metric, the map A_X turns out to be a Riemannian submersion with minimal fibers, onto a flat torus. We characterize the base of J_X in terms of an extremal problem for Euclidean lattices, studied by A.-M. Berg'e and J. Martinet. Given a closed manifold X that admits a submersion F to its Jacobi torus T^{b_1(X)}, we construct all metrics on X that realize equality in our inequality. While one can choose arbitrary metrics of fixed volume on the fibers of F, the horizontal space is chosen using a multi-parameter version of J. Moser's method of constructing volume-preserving flows.

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