Besicovitch-type product inequality for closed geodesics on higher-dimensional spheres

Let n>2n>2, and let (Sn,g)(S^n,g) be an nn-dimensional Riemannian sphere. A Besicovitch-type product inequality asserts that there is a constant C(n)>0C(n)>0, depending only on the dimension nn, such that there exist nn distinct closed geodesics with lengths L1,,LnL_1,\ldots,L_n satisfying

L1L2LnC(n)Vol(Sn,g).L_1\cdot L_2\cdot\ldots\cdot L_n\leq C(n)\cdot\operatorname{Vol}(S^n,g).

This conjectures a higher-dimensional analogue of the proved two-dimensional inequality, which bounds the product of the lengths of two distinct closed geodesics by the area of a Riemannian 22-sphere. The higher-dimensional statement remains open in the supplied source.

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Talant Talipov, “Besicovitch-type inequality for closed geodesics on 2-dimensional spheres”, arXiv:2412.02028 (2025).

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