Non-existence of non-isometric Dirac-isospectral spin lens spaces in dimensions congruent to 1 modulo 4

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A spin lens space is a lens space equipped with a spin structure, and two such spaces are Dirac isospectral when their Dirac operators have the same spectrum, counted with multiplicities. Let nn denote their dimension.

Non-existence conjecture. Two Dirac isospectral spin lens spaces of dimension n≡1(mod4)n\equiv 1\pmod4 are necessarily isometric.

The conjecture is motivated by the absence of examples found in the stated dimensions and the reported computational checks for bounded fundamental-group orders. It asserts that Dirac-isospectral spin lens spaces in these dimensions cannot be non-isometric.

References

Primary source

Sebastian Boldt and Emilio A. Lauret, “An explicit formula for the Dirac multiplicities on lens spaces”, arXiv:1412.2599 (2014).

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