Simple length spectrum rigidity for hyperbolic surfaces

Let SS and SS' be hyperbolic surfaces, and let the multi-set of lengths of their simple closed geodesics be called their simple length spectrum. Simple length spectrum rigidity conjecture. If SS and SS' have the same simple length spectrum, then they are isometric. This conjecture asks whether simple length isospectrality determines a hyperbolic surface up to isometry. The paper establishes non-isospectrality for a particular pair of Sunada covers, but the general question remains open.

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Tarik Aougab, Max Lahn, Marissa Loving and Yang Xiao, “Characterizing covers via simple closed curves”, arXiv:2006.16988 (2020).

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