{ "id": "1904.01945", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-04-03T12:10:48.000Z", "updated": "2019-04-03T12:10:48.000Z", "title": "Hyperbolic surfaces with sublinearly many systoles that fill", "authors": [ "Maxime Fortier Bourque" ], "comment": "19 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "For any $\\varepsilon>0$, we construct a closed hyperbolic surface of genus $g=g(\\varepsilon)$ with a set of at most $\\varepsilon g$ systoles that fill, meaning that each component of the complement of their union is contractible. This surface is also a critical point of index at most $\\varepsilon g$ for the systole function, disproving the lower bound of $2g-1$ conjectured by Schmutz Schaller.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-04-03T12:10:48.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "closed hyperbolic surface", "systole function", "lower bound", "schmutz schaller", "complement" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 19, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }