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Strong marked isospectrality of affine Lorentzian groups

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

The Margulis invariant is a function defined on a group of Lorentzian transformations GG acting on Minkowski space R2,1\R^{2,1}, that contains no elliptic elements. The spectrum of GG is the sequence of values of the Margulis invariant for all its elements. If the underlying linear group of GG is fixed, Drumm and Goldman proved that the spectrum defines the translational part completely. In this note, we strengthen this result by showing that isospectrality holds for any free product of cyclic groups of given rank, up to conjugation in the group of affine transformations of R2,1R^{2,1}, as long as it is non-radiant and that its linear part is discrete and non-elementary. In particular, isospectrality holds when the linear part is a Schottky group.

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@article{arxiv.math/0310464,
  title  = {Strong marked isospectrality of affine Lorentzian groups},
  author = {Virginie Charette and Todd Drumm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0310464},
  year   = {2007}
}

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