scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1065033

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The authors are interested in determining which irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type are infinitesimally spectrally rigid. A Riemannian symmetric space \((X,g)\) of compact type is infinitesimally spectrally rigid if, for every isospectral deformation \(\{g_t\}\) of \(g\) \((\{g_t\}\), for \(|t|<\varepsilon\), with \(g_0=g\), is an isospectral deformation of \(g\) if the spectrum of the Laplacian of the metric \(g_t\) is independent of \(t)\), there is a one-parameter family of diffeomorphisms \(\varphi_t\) of \(X\) such that \(g_t= \varphi_t^*g\) to first order in \(t\) at \(t=0\). In this paper the authors present an outline of the proof of the following result (of previous work): For \(n\geq 3\), the real Grassmannian \(G_{2,n}\) of (unoriented) 2-planes in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+2}\) is infinitesimally spectrally rigid. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00033].











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