Statement
A student of Charles Loewner's, P.M. Pu proved in a 1950 thesis (published in 1952) that every metric on the real projective plane satisfies the optimal inequality
where sys is the systole. The boundary case of equality is attained precisely when the metric is of constant Gaussian curvature.
Read more about this topic: Pu's Inequality
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