The spectral rigidity of Ricci soliton and Einstein-type manifolds

Abstract

We are concerned in this article with a classical topic in spectral geometry dating back to McKean-Singer, Patodi and Tanno: whether or not the constancy of sectional curvature (resp. holomorphic sectional curvature) of a compact Riemannian manifold (resp. K\"{a}hler manifold) can be completely determined by the eigenvalues of its $p$-Laplacian for a \emph{single} integer $p$? We treat this question under two conditions: gradient shrinking Ricci soliton for Riemannian manifolds and cohomologically Einstein for K\"{a}hler manifolds. We show that, with some sporadic unknown cases, this is true for each $p$. Furthermore, we show that the condition of being isospectral can be relaxed to a suitable almost-isospectral version.