The analytic torsion of a disc

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9300-2zbMATH Open1244.57042arXiv0811.3196OpenAlexW1597356535MaRDI QIDQ420610FDOQ420610

Authors: Luiz Hartmann, Thiago de Melo, M. Spreafico 

Publication date: 22 May 2012

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Reidemeister torsion and the analytic torsion of the $m$ dimensional disc in the Euclidean $m$ dimensional space, using the base for the homology defined by Ray and Singer in cite{RS}. We prove that the Reidemeister torsion coincides with a power of the volume of the disc. We study the additional terms arising in the analytic torsion due to the boundary, using generalizations of the Cheeger-M"{u}ller theorem. We use a formula proved by Br"uning and Ma cite{BM}, that predicts a new anomaly boundary term beside the known term proportional to the Euler characteristic of the boundary cite{Luc}. Some of our results extend to the case of the cone over a sphere, in particular we evaluate directly the analytic torsion for a cone over the circle and over the two sphere. We compare the results obtained in the low dimensional cases. We also consider a different formula for the boundary term given by Dai and Fang cite{DF}, and we show that the result obtained using this formula is inconsistent with the direct calculation of the analytic torsion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3196

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zbMATH Keywords

analytic torsionReidemeister torsionfunctional determinant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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