Wide short geodesic loops on closed Riemannian manifolds

arXiv1910.01772MaRDI QIDQ6326532FDOQ6326532

Authors: Regina Rotman 

Publication date: 3 October 2019

Abstract: It is not known whether or not the lenth of the shortest periodic geodesic on a closed Riemannian manifold $M^n$ can be majorized by $c(n)vo{l}^{1overn}$, or $ildec(n)d$, where $n$ is the dimension of $M^n$, $vol$ denotes the volume of $M^n$, and $d$ denotes its diameter. In this paper we will prove that for each $epsilon>0$ one can find such estimates for the length of a geodesic loop with with angle between $pi-epsilon$ and $pi$ with an explicit constant that depends both on $n$ and $epsilon$. That is, let $epsilon>0$, and let $a=lceil1oversin(epsilonover2)ceil+1$. We will prove that there exists a "wide" (i.e. with an angle that is wider than $pi-epsilon$) geodesic loop on $M^n$ of length at most $2n!a^{n}d$. We will also show that there exists a "wide" geodesic loop of length at most $2(n+1){!}^2{a}^{(n+1{)}^3}FillRadleq2cdotn(n+1){!}^2{a}^{(n+1{)}^3}vo{l}^{1overn}$. Here $FillRad$ is the Filling Radius of $M^n$.

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