On the generic spectrum of a Riemannian cover (Q756227)

The author deals with the generic properties of the Laplacians and isospectral problems of Riemannian manifolds. First the author shows the conjecture: let p: \(M\to M_ 0\) be a finite normal Riemannian cover with the monodromy group G. Then for the generic metric \(g_ 0\) on \(M_ 0\), the eigenspaces of the Laplacian on M with respect to the metric \(p^*(g_ 0)\) are irreducible (as orthogonal representations of the group G) under a ``high-dimension low-degree'' assumption: dim M\(>\deg (\sigma)\) for any orthogonal irreducible \(\sigma\) of G. Secondly a generalization of this theorem is proved to the non- normal coverings with normal closure, and then the author constructs a pair of non-isometric isospectral Riemannian manifolds with simple spectrum. For these purposes, three precise backgrounds are given: (1) perturbation theory of generic Laplacian, (2) Harmonic analysis on a normal Riemannian cover, (3) perturbation theory on a normal Riemannian cover.