Spectra related to the length spectrum

DOI10.4310/AJM.2021.V25.N4.A4zbMATH Open1501.58020arXiv1811.04145OpenAlexW2900217918MaRDI QIDQ2143451FDOQ2143451

Authors: Conrad Plaut 

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how to extend the Covering Spectrum (CS) of Sormani-Wei to two spectra, called the Extended Covering Spectrum (ECS) and Entourage Spectrum (ES) that are new for Riemannian manifolds but defined with useful properties on any metric on a Peano continuum. We do so by measuring in two different ways the "size" of a topological generalization of the $delta$-covers of Sormani-Wei called "entourage covers". For Riemannian manifolds $M$ of dimension at least 3, we characterize entourage covers as those covers corresponding to the normal closures of finite subsets of $p{i}_1(M)$. We show that CS$subset$ES$subset$MLS and that for Riemannian manifolds these inclusions may be strict, where MLS is the set of lengths of curves that are shortest in their free homotopy classes. We give equivalent definitions for all of these spectra that do not actually involve lengths of curves. Of particular interest are resistance metrics on fractals for which there are no non-constant rectifiable curves, but where there is a reasonable notion of Laplace Spectrum (LaS). The paper opens new fronts for questions about the relationship between LaS and subsets of the length spectrum for a range of spaces from Riemannian manifolds to resistance metric spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04145

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zbMATH Keywords

length spectrumcovering spectrumLaplace spectrumresistance metrics on fractals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Isospectrality (58J53) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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