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Spectral properties of 4-dimensional compact flat manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the spectral properties of a large class of compact flat Riemannian manifolds of dimension 4, namely, those whose corresponding Bieberbach groups have the canonical lattice as translation lattice. By using the explicit expression of the heat trace of the Laplacian acting on pp-forms, we determine all pp-isospectral and LL-isospectral pairs and we show that in this class of manifolds, isospectrality on functions and isospectrality on pp-forms for all values of pp are equivalent to each other. The list shows for any pp, 1p31 \le p \le 3, many pp-isospectral pairs that are not isospectral on functions and have different lengths of closed geodesics. We also determine all length isospectral pairs (i.e. with the same length multiplicities), showing that there are two weak length isospectral pairs that are not length isospectral, and many pairs, pp-isospectral for all pp and not length isospectral.

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@article{arxiv.math/0505486,
  title  = {Spectral properties of 4-dimensional compact flat manifolds},
  author = {Roberto Miatello and Ricardo Podesta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0505486},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

25 pages, several tables, to appear in AGAG

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