The Sunada construction and the simple length spectrum

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9753-XMaRDI QIDQ357859zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rasimate Maungchang

Publication date 13 August 2013

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4317

zbMATH Keywords

geodesiciso-length spectrallengthsurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that certain families of iso-length spectral hyperbolic surfaces obtained via the Sunada construction are not generally simple iso-length spectral.

Review text

Two manifolds are said to be (simple) iso-length spectral if they have the same set of all lengths of (simple) closed geodesics counted with multiplicities. \textit{T. Sunada} [Ann. Math. (2) 121, 169--186 (1985; Zbl 0585.58047)] provided certain covering method to construct iso-length spectral manifolds which are frequently not isometric. Let \(M\) be a closed Riemannian manifold with a surjective homomorphism from its fundamental group onto a finite group \(G\). Sunada showed that if \(H, K\subset G\) are subgroups such that each conjugacy class of \(G\) meets \(H\) and \(K\) in the same number of elements, then the finite covering spaces \(M_H\) and \(M_K\) corresponding to the subgroups \(H\) and \(K\) are iso-length spectral. In this paper, the author proves that certain of Sunada's examples of iso-length spectral hyperbolic surfaces are not simple iso-length spectral. More precisely, he shows that there are exactly four nonsimple closed geodesics on \(M_H\) and four simple closed geodesics on \(M_K\) with the same length.

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