On inaudible curvature properties of closed Riemannian manifolds (Q963260)

Let \(\Delta\) be the Laplacian on a compact closed Riemannian manifold \(M\). The spectrum of the Laplacian is the collection of eigenvalues of \(\Delta\) where each eigenvalue is repeated according to multiplicity. There are many properties in Riemannian geometry which are determined by the spectrum of the Laplacian, i.e. if two manifolds are isospectral and if one manifold has such a property, then the other manifold has that property as well. The authors show that the property of being a D'Atri space, a manifold of type \(\mathcal{A}\), a probabilistic commutative space, a \(\mathfrak{C}\)-space, a \(\mathfrak{IC}\)-space, or a \(\mathfrak{GC}\)-space is not spectrally determined; thus it is said to be ``inaudible'' (here one thinks of a manifold as a drum and the spectrum of the Laplacian as providing the fundamental frequencies of the drum). The authors also show that weak local symmetry is not a property which is determined by the spectrum of the Laplacian.