Abstract:
For Riemannian manifolds there are several examples which are isospectral but not isometric, see e.g. J. Milnor [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA51 (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.