Translation surfaces with large systoles

Abstract

In this paper we continue to investigate the systolic landscape of translation surfaces started in [CHMW]. We show that there is an infinite sequence of surfaces $(S_{g_k}{)}_k$ of genus $g_k$, where $g_k\to \infty$ with large systoles. On the other hand we show that for hyperelliptic surfaces we can find a suitable homology basis, where a large number of loops that induce the basis are short.

15 pages, 7 figures