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Isoperimetric inequality

Pu's inequality can be thought of as an ``opposite'' isoperimetric inequality, in the following precise sense.

The classical isoperimetric inequality in the plane is a relation between two metric invariants: length $ L$ of a simple closed curve in the plane, and area $ A$ of the region bounded by the curve. Namely, every simple closed curve in the plane satisfies the inequality

$\displaystyle \frac{A}{\pi}\leq\left(\frac{L}{2\pi}\right)^2.
$

This classical isoperimetric inequality is sharp, insofar as equality is attained precisely by round circles.



Mikhail Katz 2007-09-19