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The 2-Transitive Transplantable Isospectral Drums

Mathematical Physics 2011-08-19 v1 math.MP Chaotic Dynamics Quantum Physics

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 R2{\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.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3650,
  title  = {The 2-Transitive Transplantable Isospectral Drums},
  author = {Jeroen Schillewaert and Koen Thas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3650},
  year   = {2011}
}
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