\(L^ 2\)-analytic torsion (Q1193916)
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\(L^ 2\)-analytic torsion (English)
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27 September 1992
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The author introduces a new differential invariant called \(L^ 2\)- analytic torsion, for closed manifolds whose universal covers have trivial \(L^ 2\)-cohomology, under the conjecture that these manifolds have positive decay. This means that the von Neumann trace of the heat kernel of the Laplacian minus the harmonic projection on \(L^ 2\) \(j\)- forms decays faster than some negative power of time. Various functional properties of \(L^ 2\)-analytic torsion are established and some explicit calculations of this invariant are made.
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\(L^ 2\)-analytic torsion
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closed manifolds with positive decay
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