A Canonical Quadratic Form on the Determinant Line of a Flat Vector Bundle

DOI10.1093/imrn/rnn030zbMath1146.58023arXiv0710.1232MaRDI QIDQ3515971

Maxim Braverman, Thomas Kappeler

Publication date: 30 July 2008

Published in: International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1232

zbMATH Keywords

torsion; vector bundle; torsion quadratic form; canonical quadratic form; closed oriented odd-dimensional manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

32L10: Sheaves and cohomology of sections of holomorphic vector bundles, general results

58J52: Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion

57Q10: Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.

32Q35: Complex manifolds as subdomains of Euclidean space