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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 258 - Differential Geometry

Max Engelstein

University of Minnesota

The Riemannian Quantitative Isoperimetric Inequality

Abstract:

The (Euclidean) isoperimetric inequality says that any set has larger perimeter than a ball with the same area. The quantitative isoperimetric inequality says that the difference in perimeters is bounded from below by the square of the distance from our set E to the ``closest'' ball of the same area. In this talk, we will discuss an extension of this result to closed Riemannian manifolds with analytic metrics. In particular, we show that a similar inequality holds but with the distance raised to a power that depends on the geometry. We also have examples which show that a greater power than two is sometimes necessary and that the analyticity condition is necessary. This is joint work with O. Chodosh (Stanford) and L. Spolaor (UCSD).

Host: Lei Ni

February 12, 2020

10:00 AM

AP&M 6402

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