Isospectral deformations of closed Riemannian manifolds with different scalar curvature

Gordon, Carolyn S.; Gornet, Ruth; Schueth, Dorothee; Webb, David. L.; Wilson, Edward N.

Isospectral deformations of closed Riemannian manifolds with different scalar curvature

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We construct the first examples of continuous families of isospectral Riemannian metrics that are not locally isometric on closed manifolds, more precisely, on $S^n\times T^m$, where $T^m$ is a torus of dimension $m\ge 2$ and $S^n$ is a sphere of dimension $n\ge 4$. These metrics are not locally homogeneous; in particular, the scalar curvature of each metric is nonconstant. For some of the deformations, the maximum scalar curvature changes during the deformation.
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