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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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One cannot hear the shape of a drum
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by Carolyn Gordon, David L. Webb and Scott Wolpert PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 134-138 Request permission

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.
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  • © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 134-138
  • MSC (2000): Primary 58G25; Secondary 35R30
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00289-6
  • MathSciNet review: 1136137