Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let ${{\Gamma }_{1}}$ and
${{\Gamma }_{2}}$ be Bieberbach groups contained in the full isometry group
$G$ of
${{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}$. We prove that if the compact flat manifolds
${{\Gamma }_{1}}\backslash {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}$ and
${{\Gamma }_{2}}\backslash {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}$ are strongly isospectral, then the Bieberbach groups
${{\Gamma }_{1}}$ and
${{\Gamma }_{2}}$ are representation equivalent; that is, the right regular representations
${{L}^{2}}\left( {{\Gamma }_{1}}\backslash G \right)$ and
${{L}^{2}}\left( {{\Gamma }_{2}}\backslash G \right)$ are unitarily equivalent.
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