An optimal systolic inequality for CAT(0) metrics in genus two

DOI10.2140/PJM.2006.227.95MaRDI QIDQ2382016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stéphane Sabourau, Mikhail G. Katz

Publication date 27 September 2007

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501017

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0) metricsystole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We prove an optimal systolic inequality for CAT(0) metrics on a genus~2 surface. We use a Voronoi cell technique, introduced by C.~Bavard in the hyperbolic context. The equality is saturated by a flat singular metric in the conformal class defined by the smooth completion of the curve y^2=x^5-x. Thus, among all CAT(0) metrics, the one with the best systolic ratio is composed of six flat regular octagons centered at the Weierstrass points of the Bolza surface.

Review text

The systole of a Riemannian manifold is the shortest length of closed noncontractible loops, and when the dimension is equal to 2, the systolic ratio is the square of the systole divided by the area of the surface. It is invariant under scaling. An important problem is to determine the optimal systolic ratio for natural classes of surfaces. For the Klein bottle (the real projective plane) and the torus, it was determined by Pu and Loewner respectively. Such an optimal bound is not known for higher genus surfaces. This paper gives an optimal systolic ratio inequality for CAT(0) metrics on a genus 2 surface with mild singularities (i.e., conic singularities whose angles at the singular points are rational multiples of \(2\pi\)), and shows that the optimal bound is realized by a singular metric, with 16 conical singular points, in the conformal class of the Bolza surface. It uses a Voronoi cell technique introduced by C. Bavard in the hyperbolic context to prove the results.

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