Isospectral deformations of closed Riemannian manifolds with different scalar curvature (Q1266228)

The main aim of this paper is to look more closely to the basic question: to what extent the eigenvalue spectrum of a compact Riemannian manifold determines the geometry of the manifold? The authors show that for \(n\geq 4\), there exist continuous \(d\)-parameter families \( {g_t}\) of isospectral, non-isometric Riemannian metrics on the manifold \(S^n\times T\), where \(T\) is the \(2\)-dimensional torus and \(S^n\) is the \(n\)-dimensional sphere. Here \(d\) is of order at least \(O(n^2)\). These metrics are non-homogeneous. For some of the deformations, the maximum scalar curvature of \(g_t\) depends non-trivially on \(t\). They give the first examples of continuous isospectral deformations of closed manifolds for which the metrics are not locally isometric, as well as they give the first examples of isospectral manifolds with different scalar curvature.