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SIGMA, 2011 Volume 7, 080, 8 pp. (Mi sigma638)

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The 2-Transitive Transplantable Isospectral Drums

Jeroen Schillewaerta, Koen Thasb

a Department of Mathematics, Free University of Brussels (ULB), CP 216, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
b Department of Mathematics, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, S25, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

Abstract: For Riemannian manifolds there are several examples which are isospectral but not isometric, see e.g. J. Milnor [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 51 (1964), 542]; in the present paper, we investigate pairs of domains in $\mathbb R^2$ which are isospectral but not congruent. All known such counter examples to M. Kac's famous question can be constructed by a certain tiling method (“transplantability”) using special linear operator groups which act $2$-transitively on certain associated modules. In this paper we prove that if any operator group acts $2$-transitively on the associated module, no new counter examples can occur. In fact, the main result is a corollary of a result on Schreier coset graphs of $2$-transitive groups.

Keywords: isospectrality; drums; Riemannian manifold; doubly transitive group; linear group.

MSC: 20D06; 35J10; 35P05; 37J10; 58J53

Received: December 14, 2010; in final form August 8, 2011; Published online August 18, 2011

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2011.080



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