Schmutz Schaller's systole-length conjecture for hyperbolic surfaces

Let Mg\mathcal M_g denote the moduli space of closed hyperbolic surfaces of genus gg, and let sys(S)\operatorname{sys}(S) be the systole length of SS. Schmutz Schaller's systole-length conjecture. There exists a constant A>0A>0 such that

maxSMgsys(S)43logg+A.\max_{S\in \mathcal M_g} \operatorname{sys}(S)\leq \frac{4}{3}\log g+A.

This conjecture asserts that the maximal systole length grows logarithmically with genus, with leading coefficient 4/34/3, matching the conjectured optimal asymptotic for arithmetic surfaces. The source gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

Hugo Parlier, “Kissing numbers for surfaces”, arXiv:1111.3573 (2011).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2011). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0912.1540, arXiv:math/0604163.

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