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Flat manifolds isospectral on p-forms

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We study isospectrality on p-forms of compact flat manifolds by using the equivariant spectrum of the Hodge-Laplacian on the torus. We give an explicit formula for the multiplicity of eigenvalues and a criterion for isospectrality. We construct a variety of new isospectral pairs, some of which are the first such examples in the context of compact Riemannian manifolds. For instance, we give pairs of flat manifolds of dimension n=2p, p≥2, not homeomorphic to each other, which are isospectral on p-forms but not on q-forms for q∈p, 0≤q≤n. Also, we give manifolds isospectral on p-forms if and only if p is odd, one of them orientable and the other not, and a pair of 0-isospectral flat manifolds, one of them Kähler, and the other not admitting any Kähler structure. We also construct pairs, M, M′ of dimension n≥6, which are isospectral on functions and such that βp(M)<βp(M’), for 0<p<n and pairs isospectral on p-forms for every p odd, and having different holonomy groups, ℤ4 and ℤ 22 , respectively.

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Miatello, R.J., Rossetti, J.P. Flat manifolds isospectral on p-forms. J Geom Anal 11, 649–667 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930761

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