Poincar\'e--Reidemeister metric, Euler structures, and torsion

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2000.021zbMATH Open0938.57020arXivmath/9803137OpenAlexW2963213411MaRDI QIDQ4950430FDOQ4950430

Authors: Michael Farber, Vladimir Turaev 

Publication date: 29 March 2000

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we define a Poincar'e-Reidemeister scalar product on the determinant line of the cohomology of any flat vector bundle over a closed orientable odd-dimensional manifold. It is a combinatorial "torsion-type" invariant which refines the PR-metric, introduced earlier by the first author, and contains an additional sign or phase information. We compute the PR-scalar product in terms of the torsions of Euler structures, introduced earlier by the second author. We show that the sign of our PR-scalar product is determined by the Stiefel-Whitney classes and the semi-characteristic of the manifold. As an application, we compute the Ray-Singer analytic torsion via the torsions of Euler structures. Another application: a computation of the twisted semi-characteristic in terms of the Stiefel-Whitney classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803137

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zbMATH Keywords

Ray-Singer analytic torsionPoincaré-Reidemeister scalar producttwisted semi-characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99)

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