The uniform systole conjecture for arithmetic locally symmetric manifolds

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Fix a symmetric space SS of non-compact type without Euclidean de Rham factors, and let an arithmetic SS-manifold be a quotient M=Γ\SM=\Gamma\backslash S by a torsion-free arithmetic lattice. A closed geodesic is a periodic geodesic in MM. The uniform arithmetic systole conjecture. There exists a constant l=l(S)l=l(S) such that no arithmetic SS-manifold contains a closed geodesic of length at most ll. 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.

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Tsachik Gelander, “Homotopy type and volume of locally symmetric manifolds”, arXiv:math/0111165 (2004).

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