One cannot hear the shape of a drum

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00289-6MaRDI QIDQ4016742zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Carolyn S. Gordon, Scott A. Wolpert, David L. Webb

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9207215

zbMATH Keywords

2-sphereDirichlet spectrahyperbolic planeisospectral Riemannian manifoldsNeumann spectraSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We use an extension of Sunada's theorem to construct a nonisometric pair of isospectral simply connected domains in the Euclidean plane, thus answering negatively Kac's question, ``can one hear the shape of a drum? In order to construct simply connected examples, we exploit the observation that an orbifold whose underlying space is a simply connected manifold with boundary need not be simply connected as an orbifold.

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