Spectral Rigidity of q-differential Metrics

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 4:15pm
Location: 
DL 431
Speaker: 
Marissa Loving
Speaker affiliation: 
Gatech
Event description: 

When geometric structures on surfaces are determined by the lengths of curves, it is natural to ask which curves’ lengths do we really need to know? It is a classical result of Fricke that a hyperbolic metric on a surface is determined by its marked simple length spectrum. More recently, Duchin–Leininger–Rafi proved that a flat metric induced by a unit-norm quadratic differential is also determined by its marked simple length spectrum. In this talk, I will describe a generalization of the notion of simple curves to that of q-simple curves, for any positive integer q, and show that the lengths of q-simple curves suffice to determine a non-positively curved Euclidean cone metric induced by a q-differential metric.