On the homotopy invariance of 𝐿² torsion for covering spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04595-XMaRDI QIDQ4383071zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Varghese Mathai, Mel Rothenberg

Publication date 24 March 1998

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

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

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)

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.

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