Can you hear your location on a manifold?

EL Wyman, Y Xi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04659, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce a variation on Kac's question," Can one hear the shape of a drum?" Instead of
trying to identify a compact manifold and its metric via its Laplace--Beltrami spectrum, we ask …

Cospectral vertices, walk-regular planar graphs and the echolocation problem

SL Kong, EL Wyman, Y Xi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06022, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study cospectral vertices on finite graphs in relation to the echolocation problem on
Riemannian manifolds. First, We prove a computationally simple criterion to determine …