Refined analytic torsion as an element of the determinant line

DOI10.2140/gt.2007.11.139zbMath1135.58014arXivmath/0510532MaRDI QIDQ873941

Maxim Braverman, Thomas Kappeler

Publication date: 21 March 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510532

zbMATH Keywords

eta invariant; odd signature operator; refined analytic torsion; metric anomaly; determinant line; Ray-Singer torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

58J28: Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants

58J52: Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion