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Hearing Delzant polytopes from the equivariant spectrum

Differential Geometry 2012-06-19 v2 Symplectic Geometry Spectral Theory

Abstract

Let M^{2n} be a symplectic toric manifold with a fixed T^n-action and with a toric K\"ahler metric g. Abreu asked whether the spectrum of the Laplace operator Δg\Delta_g on C(M)\mathcal{C}^\infty(M) determines the moment polytope of M, and hence by Delzant's theorem determines M up to symplectomorphism. We report on some progress made on an equivariant version of this conjecture. If the moment polygon of M^4 is generic and does not have too many pairs of parallel sides, the so-called equivariant spectrum of M and the spectrum of its associated real manifold M_R determine its polygon, up to translation and a small number of choices. For M of arbitrary even dimension and with integer cohomology class, the equivariant spectrum of the Laplacian acting on sections of a naturally associated line bundle determines the moment polytope of M.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0908.0727,
  title  = {Hearing Delzant polytopes from the equivariant spectrum},
  author = {Emily B. Dryden and Victor Guillemin and Rosa Sena-Dias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0727},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

23 pages, 9 figures; v2 is published version

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