Complex-valued analytic torsion for flat bundles and for holomorphic bundles with (1,1) connections

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DOI10.1002/CPA.20307zbMATH Open1201.58021arXiv0810.4833OpenAlexW2079561459MaRDI QIDQ5850844FDOQ5850844


Authors: E. Y. Miller, Sylvain Cappell Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 January 2010

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The work of Ray and Singer which introduced analytic torsion, a kind of determinant of the Laplacian operator in topological and holomorphic settings, is naturally generalized in both settings. The couplings are extended in a direct way in the topological setting to general flat bundles and in the holomorphic setting to bundles with (1,1) connections, which using the Newlander-Nirenberg Theorem are seen to be the bundles with both holomorphic and anti-holomorphic structures. The resulting natural generalizations of Laplacians are not always self-adjoint and the corresponding generalizations of analytic torsions are thus not always real-valued. The Cheeger-Muller theorem, on equivalence in a topological setting of analytic torsion to classical topological torsion, generalizes to this complex-valued torsion. On the algebraic side the methods introduced include a notion of torsion associated to a complex equipped with both boundary and coboundry maps.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4833




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