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Zeta functions that hear the shape of a Riemann surface

Abstract

To a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface, we associate a finitely summable spectral triple whose underlying topological space is the limit set of a corresponding Schottky group, and whose "Riemannian" aspect (Hilbert space and Dirac operator) encode the boundary action through its Patterson-Sullivan measured. We prove that the ergodic rigidity theorem for this boundary action implies that the zeta functions of the spectral triple suffice to characterize the (anti-)complex isomorphism class of the corresponding Riemann surface. Thus, you can hear the complex analytic shape of a Riemann surface, by listening to a suitable spectral triple.

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© 2008 Elsevier Ltd. Received 9 November 2007; revised 17 December 2007; accepted 30 December 2007. Available online 6 January 2008.

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