Filling area conjecture, optimal systolic inequalities, and the fiber class in abelian covers
arXiv:math/0412011
Abstract
We investigate the filling area conjecture, optimal systolic inequalities, and the related problem of the nonvanishing of certain linking numbers in 3-manifolds.
25 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of conference and workshop in memory of R. Brooks, held at the Technion, Israel Mathematical Conference Proceedings (IMCP), Contemporary Mathematics 387, A.M.S