Isospectral deformations of negatively curved Riemannian manifolds with boundary which are not locally isometric

2000/03/01 by Carolyn S. Gordon, Gordon, Carolyn S., Zoltan I. Szabo +1
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Spectral Theory (math.SP) #math.DG #math.SP

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0003007

21 pages

arxiv created 2000/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

To what extent does the eigenvalue spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold determine the geometry of the manifold? We give examples of isospectral manifolds with different local geometry including continuous families of isospectral negatively curved manifolds with boundary as well as various pairs of manifolds. The latter illustrate that the spectrum does not determine whether a manifold with boundary has negative curvature, whether it has constant Ricci curvature, and whether it has parallel curvature tensor, and the spectrum does not determine whether a closed manifold has constant scalar curvature.

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