Approximating L 2-Signatures by Their Compact Analogues

DOI10.1515/FORM.2005.17.1.31MaRDI QIDQ4661825zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfgang Lück, Thomas Schick

Publication date 30 March 2005

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110328

zbMATH Keywords

covering spaceregular exhaustionresidually finite groupsignaturetrace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Abstract: :Let G be a group together with an descending nested sequence of normal subgroups G=G_0, G_1, G_2 G_3, ... of finite index [G:G_k] such the intersection of the G_k-s is the trivial group. Let (X,Y) be a compact 4n-dimensional Poincare' pair and p: (�ar{X},�ar{Y}) o (X,Y) be a G-covering, i.e. normal covering with G as deck transformation group. We get associated $G{/}_k$-coverings (X_k,Y_k) o (X,Y). We prove that sign^{(2)}(�ar{X},�ar{Y}) = lim_{k oinfty} frac{sign(X_k,Y_k)}{[G : G_k]}, where sign or sign^{(2)} is the signature or L^2-signature, respectively, and the convergence of the right side for any such sequence (G_k)_k is part of the statement.

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