The projective-space systolic conjecture for reversible optical hypersurfaces
The projective-space systolic conjecture for reversible optical hypersurfaces
Let be a reversible optical hypersurface in the cotangent bundle of real projective -space, enclosing a volume . A periodic characteristic on is a closed characteristic of the induced contact structure. Projective-space systolic conjecture. The hypersurface carries a periodic characteristic whose action is at most
and this short characteristic can be chosen so that its projection onto the base manifold is a non-contractible loop. This is described as a generalization of the conjectured systolic optimality of the canonical metric in real projective spaces; the source gives no resolution status.
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Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva, Florent Balacheff and Kroum Tzanev, “Isosystolic inequalities for optical hypersurfaces”, arXiv:1308.5522 (2016).
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