Combinatorial invariants computing the Ray-Singer analytic torsion

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(96)00031-9MaRDI QIDQ1924846zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Farber

Publication date 26 November 1996

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9606014

zbMATH Keywords

analytic torsioncombinatorial torsionRay-Singer metricPoincaré-Reidemeister metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Abstract: It is shown that for any piecewise-linear closed orientable manifold of odd dimension there exists an invariantly defined metric on the determinant line of cohomology with coefficients in an arbitrary flat bundle E over the manifold (E is not required to be unimodular). The construction of this metric (called Poincare - Reidemeister metric) is purely combinatorial; it combines the standard Reidemeister type construction with Poincare duality. The main result of the paper states that the Poincare-Reidemeister metric computes combinatorially the Ray-Singer metric. It is shown also that the Ray-Singer metrics on some relative determinant lines can be computed combinatorially (including the even-dimensional case) in terms of metrics determined by correspondences.

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