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

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12035MaRDI QIDQ5359072zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Friedl, Wolfgang Lück

Publication date 22 September 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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