Kac's question, planar isospectral pairs and involutions in projective space

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Thas, K [1 ]
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[1] Univ Ghent, Dept Pure Math & Comp Algebra, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 2006年 / 39卷 / 23期
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10.1088/0305-4470/39/23/L02
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In a paper published in Am. Math. Mon. ( 1966 73 1-23), Kac asked his famous question 'Can one hear the shape of a drum?'. Gordon et al answered this question negatively by constructing planar isospectral pairs in their paper published in Invent. Math. (1992 110 1-22). Only a finite number of pairs have been constructed till now. Further in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. (2005 38 L477-83), Giraud showed that most of the known examples can be generated from solutions of a certain equation which involves certain involutions of an n-dimensional projective space over some finite field. He then generated all possible solutions when n = 2. In this letter we handle all dimensions, and show that no other examples arise.
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