What is this unitary invariant?

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Hi Pfs
I am reading this article:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2091
It is know that hearing the possible frequencies emitted by a drum are not enough to know its shape.
Here the frequencies are the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator.
the missing information is the unitary invariant of the title.
The autor call it spec_,N (M)
I have several questions:
Is it a set of real numbers or something else ? (the word unitary..)
why is it invariant?
I see that he builds a nxn unitary matrix (like a ckm matrix)
Lines are equivalent when multiplied by a complex with module = 1. This means that each line is equivalent to its opposite. So the unit sphere is mapped to the projective plane Pn. I do not undertand what is done with the comums....
thanks.
 
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We have on page 24 a CKM matrix:
1 1 1
1 z z*
1 z* z
where z = exp(2i pi /3)
In a 3*3 ckm matrix we have 4 free real parameters: 3 Euler's angles and a cp violating phase.
What are they here?
thanks.
 

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