Isospectral deformations of negatively curved Riemannian manifolds with boundary which are not locally isometric. (Q1847932)

The authors consider the Laplace operator acting on smooth functions on a Riemannian manifold. For isospectral manifolds the Laplacian has the same eigenvalue spectrum. In case the manifold has a boundary, both Dirichlet and Neumann isospectrality are implied. The article gives new examples of isospectral manifolds with different local geometry. The examples can be classified according to the following scheme: (i) Continuous isospectral deformations of negatively curved manifolds with boundary. (ii) A pair of isospectral manifolds with boundary, one of which has negative sectional curvature and the other mixed curvature. (iii) A pair of isospectral manifolds with boundary, one of which has constant Ricci curvature and the other variable Ricci curvature. (iv) A pair of isospectral closed manifolds, one of which has constant scalar curvature and the other variable scalar curvature. (v) Pairs of isospectral manifolds with boundary such that one manifold has parallel curvature tensor (it is a domain in a locally symmetric space) and the other does not.