Complex valued Ray-Singer torsion II

DOI10.1002/MANA.200910122zbMATH Open1208.58029arXivmath/0610875OpenAlexW2963303154MaRDI QIDQ3056286FDOQ3056286

Authors: Dan Burghelea, Stefan Haller 

Publication date: 11 November 2010

Published in: Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we extend Witten-Helffer-Sj"ostrand theory from selfadjoint Laplacians based on fiber wise Hermitian structures, to non-selfadjoint Laplacians based on fiber wise non-degenerate symmetric bilinear forms. As an application we verify, up to sign, the conjecture about the comparison of the Milnor-Turaev torsion with the complex valued analytic torsion, for odd dimensional manifolds. This is done along the lines of Burghelea, Friedlander and Kappeler's proof of the Cheeger-M"uller theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610875

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zbMATH Keywords

Witten deformationRay-Singer torsionCheeger-Müller theoremHelffer-Sjöstrand estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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Cited In (15)

• Refined analytic torsion on manifolds with boundary
• Refined analytic torsion as an element of the determinant line
• A Cheeger-Müller theorem for symmetric bilinear torsions
• Burghelea-Haller analytic torsion of \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-graded elliptic complexes
• The refined analytic torsion and a well-posed boundary condition for the odd signature operator
• Complex-valued Ray-Singer torsion
• A Cheeger-Müller theorem for symmetric bilinear torsions on manifolds with boundary
• Complex valued Bismut-Lott index theorem
• Burghelea-Haller analytic torsion for manifolds with boundary
• A Cheeger-Müller theorem for Cappell-Miller torsions on manifolds with boundary
• Complex-valued analytic torsion for flat bundles and for holomorphic bundles with \((1,1)\) connections
• Refined analytic torsion as analytic function on the representation variety and applications
• Analytic torsion of generic rank two distributions in dimension five
• Anomaly formulas for the complex-valued analytic torsion on compact bordisms
• Cappell-Miller analytic torsion for manifolds with boundary

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