Spheres of small diameter with long sweep-outs

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11391-7MaRDI QIDQ4911566zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yevgeny Liokumovich

Publication date 19 March 2013

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6159

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicdiameterRiemannian spheresweep-outtree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We prove the absence of a universal diameter bound on lengths of curves in a sweep-out of a Riemannian 2-sphere. If such bound existed it would yield a simple proof of existence of short geodesic segments and closed geodesics on a sphere of small diameter.

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• Sweepouts of closed Riemannian manifolds
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• Length of geodesics and quantitative Morse theory on loop spaces
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• Length of a closed geodesic in 3-manifolds of positive scalar curvature
• Contracting the boundary of a Riemannian 2-disc

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