Boundary case of equality in optimal loewner-type inequalities

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Bangert, Victor ^a   Croke, Christopher ^b   Ivanov, Sergei V ^c   Katz, Mikhail G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abel Jacobi map; Conformal systole; Deformation theorem; Extremal lattice; Free abelian cover; Generalized degree; Isoperimetric inequality; John ellipsoid; Loewner inequality; Lp minimizing differential forms; Perfect lattice; Riemannian submersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548532348     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-06-03836-0     Document Type: Article

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