Systoles of 2-complexes, Reeb graph, and Grushko decomposition

DOI10.1155/IMRN/2006/54936MaRDI QIDQ3419728zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stéphane Sabourau, Mikhail G. Katz, Yuli Rudyak

Publication date 7 February 2007

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602009

zbMATH Keywords

Grushko decompositionReeb graphsystoles of 2-complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: Let X be a finite 2-complex with unfree fundamental group. We prove lower bounds for the area of a metric on X, in terms of the square of the least length of a noncontractible loop in X. We thus establish a uniform systolic inequality for all unfree 2-complexes. Our inequality improves the constant in M. Gromov's inequality in this dimension. The argument relies on the Reeb graph and the coarea formula, combined with an induction on the number of freely indecomposable factors in Grushko's decomposition of the fundamental group. More specifically, we construct a kind of a Reeb space ``minimal model for X, reminiscent of the ``chopping off long fingers construction used by Gromov in the context of surfaces. As a consequence, we prove the agreement of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann and systolic categories of a 2-complex.

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