Witten deformation of the analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration

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1994-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9411013v2

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

23 pages; AMS-LaTeX; to appear in GAFA

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Let F be a flat vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold M and let f be a Morse function. Let g be a smooth Euclidean metric on F, let g_t=e^{-2tf}g and let \rho(t) be the Ray-Singer analytic torsion of F associated to the metric g_t. Assuming that the vector field grad(f) satisfies the Morse-Smale transversality conditions, we provide an asymptotic expansion for \log(\rho(t)) for t\to +\infty of the form a_0+a_1t+b\log\left(\frac t\pi\right)+o(1), where the coefficient b is a half-integer depending only on the Betti numbers of F. In the case where all the critical values of f are rational, we calculate the coefficients a_0 and a_1 explicitly in terms of the spectral sequence of a filtration associated to the Morse function. These results are obtained as an applications of a theorem by Bismut and Zhang.

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