Isospectral closed Riemannian manifolds which are not locally isometric (Q688594)

The author constructs pairs of isospectral closed Riemannian manifolds with no common coverings using two step nilmanifolds of Heisenberg type; this work is motivated in part by previous work of Szabo. The construction gives two continuous families \({\mathcal F}_{1}\) and \({\mathcal F}_ 2\) of Riemannian manifolds all of which are isospectral. Those in a given family are locally isometric but not globally isometric; the manifolds in \({\mathcal F}_ 1\) are not locally isometric to those in \({\mathcal F}_ 2\).