Isospectral hyperbolic surfaces have matching geodesics (Q929285)

The authors show that if two closed hyperbolic surfaces (not necessarily orientable or even connected) have the same Laplace spectrum, then for every length they have the same number orientation-preserving geodesics and the same number of orientation-reversing geodesics. This results restricted to orientable surfaces reduces to Huber's theorem. Appropriately generalized, it extends to hyperbolic 2-orbifolds. They give examples showing that it fails for disconnected flat 2-orbifolds.