Witten deformation of analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration

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Abstract: Let F be a flat vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold M and let f be a Morse function. Let g be a smooth Euclidean metric on F, let g_t=e^{-2tf}g and let ho(t) be the Ray-Singer analytic torsion of F associated to the metric g_t. Assuming that the vector field grad(f) satisfies the Morse-Smale transversality conditions, we provide an asymptotic expansion for log( ho(t)) for t o +infty of the form a_0+a_1t+blogleft(frac tpi ight)+o(1), where the coefficient b is a half-integer depending only on the Betti numbers of F. In the case where all the critical values of f are rational, we calculate the coefficients a_0 and a_1 explicitly in terms of the spectral sequence of a filtration associated to the Morse function. These results are obtained as an applications of a theorem by Bismut and Zhang.



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