Removing metric anomalies from Ray-Singer torsion

DOI10.1023/A:1007547205813MaRDI QIDQ1283209zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Burghelea

Publication date 8 October 2000

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807007

zbMATH Keywords

determinant lineRay-Singer torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: Ray Singer torsion is a numerical invariant associated with a compact Riemannian manifold equipped with a flat bundle and a Hermitian structure on this bundle. In this note we show how one can remove the dependence on the Riemannian metric and on the Hermitian structure with the help of a base point and of an Euler structure, in order to obtain a topological invariant. A numerical invariant for an Euler structure and additional data is also constructed.

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