Abstract
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 that 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.
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