Isospectral conformal metrics on 3-manifolds

Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C.-P.

doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-1990-1015647-3

Isospectral conformal metrics on $3$-manifolds
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by Sun-Yung A. Chang and Paul C.-P. Yang

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1990), 117-145

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-1990-1015647-3

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