The three-torus fiber-length bound

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Let gg be a Riemannian metric on the three-dimensional torus T3T^3, and let f:T3→R2f:T^3\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2. Fiber-length conjecture. There is a function ff such that, for every y∈R2y\in\mathbb{R}^2,

Length⁡[f−1(y)]≤CVol⁡(T3,g)1/3.\operatorname{Length}\bigl[f^{-1}(y)\bigr]\leq C\operatorname{Vol}(T^3,g)^{1/3}.

The source presents this as an open problem at the edge of its discussion of metric geometry in dimension three and as a naive conjecture related to the earlier level-set bounds.

References

Primary source

Larry Guth, “Metaphors in systolic geometry”, arXiv:1003.4247 (2010).

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