Analytic and Reidemeister torsion for representations in finite type Hilbert modules

DOI10.1007/BF02246786MaRDI QIDQ1125863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Kappeler, Dan Burghelea, Leonid Friedlander, Patrick McDonald

Publication date 9 November 1997

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9502001, https://eudml.org/doc/58248

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^ 2\)-analytic torsion\(L^ 2\)-topological torsionfundamental groupMilnor-Reidemeister-torsionRiemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46L99) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: For a closed Riemannian manifold we extend the definition of analytic and Reidemeister torsion associated to an orthogonal representation of fundamental group on a Hilbert module of finite type over a finite von Neumann algebra. If the representation is of determinant class we prove, generalizing the Cheeger-M"uller theorem, that the analytic and Reidemeister torsion are equal. In particular, this proves the conjecture that for closed Riemannian manifolds with positive Novikov-Shubin invariants, the L2 analytic and Reidemeister torsions are equal.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed Riemannian manifold. Given a unitary representation of its fundamental group \(\pi\) on a Hilbert \(\mathcal A\)-module \(V\) of finite type for a finite von Neumann algebra \(\mathcal A\), \(L^2\)-analytic torsion and \(L^2\)-topological torsion for \(M\) with coefficients in \(V\) are defined, provided that \((M,V)\) is of determinant-class. The main result of this paper is that both notions agree. In the special case \({\mathcal A}=\mathbb{C}\), the two notions above reduce to the classical notion of analytic torsion and Milnor-Reidemeister-torsion and the main result reduces to the theorem of Cheeger and Müller. The main technical device is the generalization of classical results and notions for coefficients in a unitary finite dimensional representation to coefficients in a representation in a Hilbert module of finite type over a finite von Neumann algebra \(\mathcal A\). A typical example is the left regular representation of the fundamental group. A calculus of elliptic pseudodifferential \(\mathcal A\)-operators acting on the sections of a bundle of Hilbert \(\mathcal A\)-modules of finite type over a compact Riemannian manifold is introduced and a theory of regularized determinants for nonnegative elliptic pseudodifferential \(\mathcal A\)-operators of positive order is developed. The strategy of proof of the equality is based on a Witten deformation of the Laplace operator with coefficients in a Hilbert \(\mathcal A\)-module of finite type generalizing the work of Helffer and Sjöstrand. The effect of the deformation is a splitting of the spectrum into a small and large part and the small part corresponds to the combinatorial counterpart.

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