The systolic constant of orientable Bieberbach 3-manifolds

DOI10.5802/AFST.1384MaRDI QIDQ2452090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chady El Mir, Jacques Lafontaine

Publication date 30 May 2014

Published in Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3894

zbMATH Keywords

asphericalflat metricsystolic ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential topology (57R99)

Abstract: A compact manifold is called Bieberbach if it carries a flat Riemannian metric. Bieberbach manifolds are aspherical, therefore the supremum of their systolic ratio, over the set of Riemannian metrics, is finite by a fundamental result of M. Gromov. We study the optimal systolic ratio of compact of $3$-dimensional orientable Bieberbach manifolds which are not tori, and prove that it cannot be realized by a flat metric. We also highlight a metric that we construct on one type of such manifolds ($C_2$) which has interesting geometric properties : it is extremal in its conformal class and the systole is realized by "very many" geodesics.

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