Continuous families of isospectral riemannian metrics which are not locally isometric

Journal of Differential Geometry

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 504-529

  Gordon, Carolyn S ^a   Wilson, Edward N ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Isospectral deformations; Nilpotent lie groups; Spectral geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000325044     PISSN: 0022040X     EISSN: 1945743X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1214460548     Document Type: Article

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