On the fields generated by the lengths of closed geodesics in locally symmetric spaces

Details On the fields generated by the lengths of closed geodesics in locally symmetric spaces On the fields generated by the lengths of closed geodesics in locally symmetric spaces

2011-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/1110.0141v1

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Differential Geometry

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This paper is the next installment of our analysis of length-commensurable locally symmetric spaces begun in Publ. math. IHES 109(2009), 113-184. For a Riemannian manifold $M$, we let $L(M)$ be the weak length spectrum of $M$, i.e. the set of lengths of all closed geodesics in $M$, and let $\mathcal{F}(M)$ denote the subfield of $\mathbb{R}$ generated by $L(M)$. Let now $M_i$ be an arithmetically defined locally symmetric space associated with a simple algebraic $\mathbb{R}$-group $G_i$ for $i = 1, 2$. Assuming Schanuel's conjecture from transcendental number theory, we prove (under some minor technical restrictions) the following dichotomy: either $M_1$ and $M_2$ are length-commensurable, i.e. $\mathbb{Q} \cdot L(M_1) = \mathbb{Q} \cdot L(M_2)$, or the compositum $\mathcal{F}(M_1)\mathcal{F}(M_2)$ has infinite transcendence degree over $\mathcal{F}(M_i)$ for at least one $i = 1$ or $2$ (which means that the sets $L(M_1)$ and $L(M_2)$ are very different).

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