The systolic-volume bound for KVol on translation surfaces

Let XX be a translation surface. Write KVol(X)\mathop{\mathrm{KVol}}(X) for its KVol and SysVol(X)\mathop{\mathrm{SysVol}}(X) for its systolic volume, defined as the volume divided by the square of the homological systolic length. The systolic-volume conjecture.

KVol(X)23SysVol(X).\mathrm{KVol}(X) \leq \frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}\mathrm{SysVol}(X).

This would sharpen the general Riemannian-surface bound KVol(X)9SysVol(X)\mathrm{KVol}(X)\leq 9\mathrm{SysVol}(X) and provide a uniform comparison for translation surfaces, although the preceding inequality with constant 11 is known to fail in general.

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Julien Boulanger and Irene Pasquinelli, “Algebraic intersections on Bouw-Möller surfaces, and more general convex polygons”, arXiv:2409.01711 (2026).

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