An isoperimetric inequality in the universal cover of the punctured plane

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2007.10.033MaRDI QIDQ998450zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Noga Alon, Adi Pinchasi, Rom Pinchasi

Publication date 28 January 2009

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2007.10.033

zbMATH Keywords

integer latticelinear isoperimetric inequalityuniversal cover space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Lattices and convex bodies in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Review text

The authors find the best possible linear isoperimetric inequality for the universal cover of \(\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \mathbb{Z}^2\). In particular they prove that if \(\alpha\) is a simple closed curve in the universal cover of \(\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \mathbb{Z}^2\), then \(L(\alpha) \geq \epsilon A(\alpha)\), where the constant \(\epsilon\) (approximately 1.71579) is the best possible. This is a surprising example for a tight isoperimetric inequality in a base space \(X\) that can be lifted to the same tight isoperimetric inequality in \(\tilde X\) (the universal cover space of \(X\)); this is not the case for many other spaces.

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