One cannot hear the shape of a drum
Abstract
We use an extension of Sunada's theorem to construct a nonisometric pair of isospectral simply connected domains in the Euclidean plane, thus answering negatively Kac's question, ``can one hear the shape of a drum?'' In order to construct simply connected examples, we exploit the observation that an orbifold whose underlying space is a simply connected manifold with boundary need not be simply connected as an orbifold.
- Publication:
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arXiv Mathematics e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 1992
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.math/9207215
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/9207215
- Bibcode:
- 1992math......7215G
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry
- E-Print:
- 5 pages