The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold

Cooper, Daryl; Delp, Kelly

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10359-1

The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold
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Abstract:

A strictly convex real projective orbifold is equipped with a natural Finsler metric called a Hilbert metric. In the case that the projective structure is hyperbolic, the Hilbert metric and the hyperbolic metric coincide. We prove that the marked Hilbert length spectrum determines the projective structure only up to projective duality. A corollary is the existence of non-isometric diffeomorphic strictly convex projective manifolds (and orbifolds) that are isospectral. This corollary follows from work of Goldman and Choi, and Benoist.

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