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Isospectral polygons, planar graphs and heat content
Author(s):
Patrick
McDonald;
Robert
Meyers
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
131
(2003),
3589-3599.
MSC (2000):
Primary 58J50, 58J65
Posted:
June 18, 2003
MathSciNet review:
1991773
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Abstract:
Given a pair of planar isospectral, nonisometric polygons constructed as a quotient of the plane by a finite group, we construct an associated pair of planar isospectral, nonisometric weighted graphs. Using the natural heat operators on the weighted graphs, we associate to each graph a heat content. We prove that the coefficients in the small time asymptotic expansion of the heat content distinguish our isospectral pairs. As a corollary, we prove that the sequence of exit time moments for the natural Markov chains associated to each graph, averaged over starting points in the interior of the graph, provides a collection of invariants that distinguish isospectral pairs in general.
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Additional Information:
Patrick
McDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida 34243
Email:
ptm@virtu.sar.usf.edu
Robert
Meyers
Affiliation:
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, New York 10276-0907
Email:
rjm243@nyu.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07123-5
PII:
S 0002-9939(03)07123-5
Keywords:
Isospectral pairs,
Dirichlet spectrum,
heat content
Received by editor(s):
May 10, 2002
Posted:
June 18, 2003
Communicated by:
Jozef Dodziuk
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2003,
American Mathematical Society
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