Quaternionic analytic torsion.

DOI10.1016/S0001-8708(02)00080-4MaRDI QIDQ1408807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kai Köhler, Gregor Weingart

Publication date 25 September 2003

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105103

zbMATH Keywords

anti-self-dual vector bundles on quaternionic Kähler manifolds of positive curvaturefixed point formulahyper-Kähler manifoldsJantzen sum formulaLaplace operatorlattice representations of Chevalley group schemesquaternionic torsion for symmetric spa\-ces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: We define an (equivariant) quaternionic analytic torsion for antiselfdual vector bundles on quaternionic Kaehler manifolds, using ideas by Leung and Yi. We compute this torsion for vector bundles on quaternionic homogeneous spaces with respect to any isometry in the component of the identity, in terms of roots and Weyl groups.

Review text

The authors define an equivariant quaternionic analytic torsion for anti-self-dual vector bundles on quaternionic Kähler manifolds, using ideas by Leung and Yi by constructing a Laplace operator associated to a complex defined by Salamon. This torsion is computed for all known quaternionic Kähler manifolds of positive curvature, i.e., for the quaternionic homogeneous spaces of compact type, with respect to the action of any element of the associated Lie group and any equivariant anti-self-dual vector bundle. For the real analytic torsion, this computation led to a classification of quotients of some odd-dimensional symmetric spaces of compact type up to homeomorphism. For the holomorphic torsion, this computation provided evidence for the fixed point formula. In combination with the fixed point formula in Arakelov geometry, it gives a new proof of the Jantzen sum formula classifying the lattice representations of Chevalley group schemes, except for the root systems \(G_2\), \(F_4\), \(E_8\). The authors comment briefly on the special case of hyper-Kähler manifolds, in which the quaternionic torsion can be expressed in terms of a Dolbeault operator.

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