Local symmetry of harmonic spaces as determined by the spectra of small geodesic spheres

DOI10.1007/S00039-012-0146-YMaRDI QIDQ412044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Teresa Arias-Marco, Dorothee Schueth

Publication date 3 May 2012

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1611, http://hdl.handle.net/10662/2498

zbMATH Keywords

curvature invariantsDamek-Ricci spacesgeodesic ballsgeodesic spheresharmonic spaceheat invariantsisospectral manifoldsLedger's recursion formulasecond fundamental form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Isospectrality (58J53)

Abstract: We show that in any harmonic space, the eigenvalue spectra of the Laplace operator on small geodesic spheres around a given point determine the norm $|ablaR|$ of the covariant derivative of the Riemannian curvature tensor in that point. In particular, the spectra of small geodesic spheres in a harmonic space determine whether the space is locally symmetric. For the proof we use the first few heat invariants and consider certain coefficients in the radial power series expansions of the curvature invariants $|R{|}^2$ and $|Ric{|}^2$ of the geodesic spheres. Moreover, we obtain analogous results for geodesic balls with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions.

Review text

The main result here states that in any harmonic space, the eigenvalue spectra of the Laplace operator on small geodesic spheres around a given point determine the norm of the covariant derivative of the Riemannian curvature tensor in that point. As a corollary the following is proved: Let \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) be harmonic spaces and assume that for any pair of points \(p_1 \in M_1\) and \(p_2 \in M_2\) there exists \(\epsilon >0\) such that for each \(r\in (0,\epsilon)\) the geodesic spheres \(S_r(p_1)\) and \(S_r(p_2)\) are isospectral, then \(M_1\) is locally symmetric iff \(M_2\) is locally symmetric. For the proof, the authors consider the power series expansion of the second heat invariant in terms of the radius of the geodesic spheres. The above results disprove certain results by \textit{Z. I. Szabo} in [Ann. Math. (2) 154, No. 2, 437--475 (2001; Zbl 1012.53034); Ann. Math. (2) 161, No. 1, 343--395 (2005; Zbl 1087.53037)]. Analogous results for geodesic balls are obtained with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions.

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