On the homotopy invariance of 𝐿² torsion for covering spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04595-XzbMATH Open0905.58059arXivdg-ga/9706006OpenAlexW1568930265MaRDI QIDQ4383071FDOQ4383071

Authors: Varghese Mathai, Mel Rothenberg 

Publication date: 24 March 1998

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the homotopy invariance of L^2 torsion for covering spaces, whenever the covering transformation group is either residually finite or amenable. In the case when the covering transformation group is residually finite and when the L^2 cohomology of the covering space vanishes, the homotopy invariance was established earlier by Lueck. We also give some applications of our results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706006

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zbMATH Keywords

invarianceamenable groupshomotopy invarianceresidually finite groupsWhitehead groups\(L^2\) torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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