Isospectrality of Margulis-Smilga spacetimes for irreducible representations of real split semisimple Lie groups

Abstract

In this article, we look at real split semisimple algebraic groups $\mathsf{G}$ with trivial center and faithful irreducible algebraic representations $\mathtt{R}$ of $\mathsf{G}$ on some vector space $\mathsf{V}$ which admit zero as a weight and which are self-contragredient (for example, adjoint representation of $\mathsf{PSL}(n,\mathbb{R})$). We show that, there exist polynomials made out of Margulis invariants of $(g,X)\in \mathsf{G}{⋉}_{\mathtt{R}}\mathsf{V}$ which are also rational expressions in $(g,X)$. Moreover, we show that any Zariski dense finitely generated subgroup of $\mathsf{G}{⋉}_{\mathtt{R}}\mathsf{V}$, for which the linear parts of the non-identity elements are loxodromic, is isospectrally rigid with respect to the Margulis invariants. In particular, we show that Margulis--Smilga spacetimes are isospectrally rigid too.

26 pages, major restructuring for better exposition but minor changes to results and proofs, introduction and abstract rewritten, accepted for publication in Algebraic & Geometric Topology

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