Systolic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and topology that primarily studies the relationship between the geometry of a manifold and the topology of the manifold. It focuses on the concept of "systoles," which are defined as the lengths of the shortest non-contractible loops in a given space. More formally, for a given manifold, the systole is the infimum of the lengths of all non-contractible loops.
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