Differential systolic inequality for embedded one-holed tori
Let be an embedded torus with one boundary component, and suppose that is a unit circle. A closed curve in is non-null-homotopic if it is not null-homotopic in . Differential systolic inequality. There is a non-null-homotopic closed curve in of length satisfying
This inequality is proposed in response to a possible counterexample to the quadratic pants decomposition conjecture obtained by iteratively adding scaled copies of a one-holed torus to a cube. The implicit constant is not stated to depend on the genus and the conjecture is presented as an open potential remedy for that construction.
References
Primary source
Robert Young, “Quantitative nonorientability of embedded cycles”, arXiv:1312.0966 (2016).
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