Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2005-04-24
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
13 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/38/41/006
Several types of systems were put forward during the past decades to show that there exist {\it isospectral} systems which are {\it metrically} different. One important class consists of Laplace Beltrami operators for pairs of flat tori in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq 4$. We propose that the spectral ambiguity can be resolved by comparing the nodal sequences (the numbers of nodal domains of eigenfunctions, arranged by increasing eigenvalues). In the case of isospectral flat tori in four dimensions - where a 4-parameters family of isospectral pairs is known- we provide heuristic arguments supported by numerical simulations to support the conjecture that the isospectrality is resolved by the nodal count. Thus - one can {\it count} the shape of a drum (if it is designed as a flat torus in four dimensions...).
Gnutzmann Sven
Smilansky Uzy
Sondergaard Niels
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