Short loop decompositions of surfaces and the geometry of Jacobians

DOI10.1007/S00039-012-0147-XMaRDI QIDQ412046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Balacheff, Hugo Parlier, Stéphane Sabourau

Publication date 3 May 2012

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2962

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacespants decvompositionshort homology basissimple closed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20)

Abstract: Given a Riemannian surface, we consider a naturally embedded graph which captures part of the topology and geometry of the surface. By studying this graph, we obtain results in three different directions. First, we find bounds on the lengths of homologically independent curves on closed Riemannian surfaces. As a consequence, we show that for any $lambdain(0,1)$ there exists a constant $C_{l}ambda$ such that every closed Riemannian surface of genus $g$ whose area is normalized at $4pi(g-1)$ has at least $[lambdag]$ homologically independent loops of length at most $C_{l}ambdalog(g)$. This result extends Gromov's asymptotic $log(g)$ bound on the homological systole of genus $g$ surfaces. We construct hyperbolic surfaces showing that our general result is sharp. We also extend the upper bound obtained by P. Buser and P. Sarnak on the minimal norm of nonzero period lattice vectors of Riemann surfaces %systole of Jacobians of Riemann surfaces in their geometric approach of the Schottky problem to almost $g$ homologically independent vectors. Then, we consider the lengths of pants decompositions on complete Riemannian surfaces in connexion with Bers' constant and its generalizations. In particular, we show that a complete noncompact Riemannian surface of genus $g$ with $n$ ends and area normalized to $4pi(g+fracn2-1)$ admits a pants decomposition whose total length (sum of the lengths) does not exceed $C_g,nlog(n+1)$ for some constant $C_g$ depending only on the genus. Finally, we obtain a lower bound on the systolic area of finitely presentable nontrivial groups with no free factor isomorphic to $$ in terms of its first Betti number. The asymptotic behavior of this lower bound is optimal.

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