The length of the shortest closed geodesic on positively curved 2-spheres

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 4:00pm
Location: 
https://yale.zoom.us/j/96501374645
Speaker: 
Ian Adelstein
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

We'll start with an intuitive introduction to the isosystolic inequalities. We then show that the shortest closed geodesic on a 2-sphere with non-negative curvature has length bounded above by three times the diameter. We prove a new isoperimetric inequality for 2-spheres with pinched curvature; this allows us to improve our bound on the length of the shortest closed geodesic in the pinched curvature setting. This is joint work with Franco Vargas Pallete.

Special note: 
Email Caglar or Franco for the zoom password.