A cornucopia of isospectral pairs of metrics on spheres with different local geometries

dc.creatorSzabo, Z. I.
dc.date2000-11-05
dc.date2003-03-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:32:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:32:49Z
dc.descriptionThis article concludes the comprehensive study started in [Sz5], where the first non-trivial isospectral pairs of metrics are constructed on balls and spheres. These investigations incorporate 4 different cases since these balls and spheres are considered both on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups and on their solvable extensions. In [Sz5] the considerations are completely concluded in the ball-case and in the nilpotent-case. The other cases were mostly outlined. In this paper the isospectrality theorems are completely established on spheres. Also the important details required about the solvable extensions are concluded in this paper. A new so called anticommutator technique is developed for these constructions. This tool is completely different from the other methods applied in the field so far. It brought a wide range of new isospectrality examples. Those constructed on geodesic spheres of certain harmonic manifolds are particularly striking. One of these spheres is homogeneous (since it is the geodesic sphere of a 2-point homogeneous space) while the other spheres, although isospectral to the previous one, are not even locally homogeneous. This shows how little information is encoded about the geometry (for instance, about the isometries) in the spectrum of Laplacian acting on functions.
dc.descriptionThe paper has been completely revised. Accepted for publication in Annals of Mathematics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011034
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011034
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/98993
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subjectSpectral Theory
dc.subjectPrimary 58G25 Secondary 53C20 22E25
dc.titleA cornucopia of isospectral pairs of metrics on spheres with different local geometries
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