with an appendix joint with Hamid Hezari

Dynamical Spectral rigidity among $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric strictly convex domains close to a circle

We show that any sufficiently (finitely) smooth $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric strictly convex domain sufficiently close to a circle is dynamically spectrally rigid, i.e. all deformations among domains in the same class which preserve the length of all periodic orbits of the associated billiard flow must necessarily be isometric deformations. This gives a partial answer to a question of P. Sarnak.