Isospectral simply-connected homogeneous spaces and the spectral rigidity of group actions
Author(s) -
Craig J. Sutton
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
commentarii mathematici helvetici
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.603
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1420-8946
pISSN - 0010-2571
DOI - 10.1007/pl00012438
Subject(s) - isospectral , mathematics , conjugacy class , rigidity (electromagnetism) , homogeneous , pure mathematics , lattice (music) , group (periodic table) , simply connected space , isometric exercise , combinatorics , physics , medicine , quantum mechanics , acoustics , physical therapy
We generalize Sunada's method to produce new examples of closed, locally non-isometric manifolds which are isospectral. In particular, we produce pairs of isospectral, simply-connected, locally non-isometric normal homogeneous spaces. These pairs also allow us to see that in general group actions with discrete spectra are not determined up to measurable conjugacy by their spectra. In particular, we show this for lattice actions.
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