Paper · Dec 12, 2023

The spectral rigidity of Ricci soliton and Einstein-type manifolds

Ping Li, Xiaomei Sun, Anqiang Zhu

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Abstract

We are concerned in this article with a classical topic in spectral geometry dating back to McKean-Singer, Patodi and Tanno: whether or not the constancy of sectional curvature (resp. holomorphic sectional curvature) of a compact Riemannian manifold (resp. Kähler manifold) can be completely determined by the eigenvalues of its -Laplacian for a single integer ? We treat this question under two conditions: gradient shrinking Ricci soliton for Riemannian manifolds and cohomologically Einstein for Kähler manifolds. We show that, with some sporadic unknown cases, this is true for each . Furthermore, we show that the condition of being isospectral can be relaxed to a suitable almost-isospectral version.

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Dec 12, 2023
Subjects
math.DG, math.SP

Comments: 21 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1804.00517

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