The uniform systole conjecture for arithmetic locally symmetric manifolds
Fix a symmetric space of non-compact type without Euclidean de Rham factors, and let an arithmetic -manifold be a quotient by a torsion-free arithmetic lattice. A closed geodesic is a periodic geodesic in . The uniform arithmetic systole conjecture. There exists a constant such that no arithmetic -manifold contains a closed geodesic of length at most . The claim would provide a uniform positive lower bound for the length of closed geodesics, equivalently a uniform lower bound for the injectivity radius in the compact case; the source derives it from Margulis's conjecture, so it remains open here.
References
Primary source
Tsachik Gelander, “Homotopy type and volume of locally symmetric manifolds”, arXiv:math/0111165 (2004).
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