Universal L2-torsion, polytopes and applications to 3-manifolds

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12035zbMATH Open1379.57029arXiv1609.07809OpenAlexW3124252550MaRDI QIDQ5359072FDOQ5359072

Wolfgang Lück, Stefan Friedl

Publication date: 22 September 2017

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

Abstract: Given an $L^2$-acyclic connected finite $CW$-complex, we define its universal $L^2$-torsion in terms of the chain complex of its universal covering. It takes values in the weak Whitehead group $operatorname{Wh}^w(G)$. We study its main properties such as homotopy invariance, sum formula, product formula and Poincar'e duality. Under certain assumptions, we can specify certain homomorphisms from the weak Whitehead group $operatorname{Wh}^w(G)$ to abelian groups such as the real numbers or the Grothendieck group of integral polytopes, and the image of the universal $L^2$-torsion can be identified with many invariants such as the $L^2$-torsion, the $L^2$-torsion function, twisted $L^2$-Euler characteristics and, in the case of a $3$-manifold, the dual Thurston norm polytope.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07809

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zbMATH Keywords

Thurston norm\(L^2\)-torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Whitehead groups and (K_1) (19B99)

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