On the fields generated by the lengths of closed geodesics in locally symmetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9909-3zbMATH Open1308.53077arXiv1110.0141OpenAlexW2100831801MaRDI QIDQ464236FDOQ464236

Authors: Gopal Prasad, Andrei Rapinchuk 

Publication date: 17 October 2014

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is the next installment of our analysis of length-commensurable locally symmetric spaces begun in Publ. math. IHES 109(2009), 113-184. For a Riemannian manifold $M$, we let $L(M)$ be the weak length spectrum of $M$, i.e. the set of lengths of all closed geodesics in $M$, and let $mathcalF(M)$ denote the subfield of $mathbbR$ generated by $L(M)$. Let now $M_i$ be an arithmetically defined locally symmetric space associated with a simple algebraic $mathbbR$-group $G_i$ for $i=1,2$. Assuming Schanuel's conjecture from transcendental number theory, we prove (under some minor technical restrictions) the following dichotomy: either $M_1$ and $M_2$ are length-commensurable, i.e. $mathbbQcdotL(M_1)=mathbbQcdotL(M_2)$, or the compositum $mathcalF(M_1)mathcalF(M_2)$ has infinite transcendence degree over $mathcalF(M_i)$ for at least one $i=1$ or $2$ (which means that the sets $L(M_1)$ and $L(M_2)$ are very different).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0141

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zbMATH Keywords

trace fieldweak containmentlocally symmetric spaceSchanuel conjecturelength commensurabilitylength of closed geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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