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

DOI10.4310/CAG.2004.V12.N3.A8zbMATH Open1068.53027arXivmath/0304494OpenAlexW2045319668WikidataQ124981029 ScholiaQ124981029MaRDI QIDQ1884005FDOQ1884005

Authors: Victor Bangert, Mikhail G. Katz 

Publication date: 22 October 2004

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic 1-formssystolic inequalityflat toristable systoleconformal systole

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)

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