Analytic torsion for surfaces with cusps. I: Compact perturbation theorem and anomaly formula (Q2200484)

The author defines the analytic torsion associated with a Riemann surface endowed with a metric having Poincaré-type singularities in the neighborhood of a finite number of points and a Hermitian vector bundle with at most logarithmic singularities at those points, coming from the metric on the negative power of the canonical line bundle twisted by the divisor of the points. The author provides a relation between this analytic torsion and the Ray-Singer analytic torsion of the compactified surface. This relation implies the anomaly formula describing how the analytic torsion varies under the change of the metric on the surface and on the vector bundle.