On the homotopy invariance of 𝐿² torsion for covering spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04595-XzbMath0905.58059arXivdg-ga/9706006OpenAlexW1568930265MaRDI QIDQ4383071

Mel Rothenberg, Varghese Mathai

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

invarianceWhitehead groupsresidually finite groupshomotopy invarianceamenable groups\(L^2\) torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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