Euler structures, the variety of representations and the Milnor-Turaev torsion

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.1185zbMATH Open1204.58027arXivmath/0310154OpenAlexW3100405630MaRDI QIDQ860152FDOQ860152

Authors: Stefan Haller, Dan Burghelea 

Publication date: 23 January 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we extend and Poincare dualize the concept of Euler structures, introduced by Turaev for manifolds with vanishing Euler-Poincare characteristic, to arbitrary manifolds. We use the Poincare dual concept, co-Euler structures, to remove all geometric ambiguities from the Ray-Singer torsion by providing a slightly modified object which is a topological invariant. We show that when the co-Euler structure is integral then the modified Ray-Singer torsion when regarded as a function on the variety of generically acyclic complex representations of the fundamental group of the manifold is the absolute value of a rational function which we call in this paper the Milnor-Turaev torsion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310154

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zbMATH Keywords

analytic torsionmapping torusChern-Simons theoryrational functionco-Euler structurecombinatorial torsiongeometric regularizationtheorem of Bismut-Zhang

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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