A Refinement of the Ray-Singer Torsion

Details A Refinement of the Ray-Singer Torsion A Refinement of the Ray-Singer Torsion

2005-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/math/0509578v1

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

6 pages, to apper in Comptes rendus Acad. Sci. Paris

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This is a short version of math.DG/0505537. For an acyclic representation of the fundamental group of a compact oriented odd-dimensional manifold, which is close enough to a unitary representation, we define a refinement of the Ray-Singer torsion associated to this representation. This new invariant can be viewed as an analytic counterpart of the refined combinatorial torsion introduced by Turaev. The refined analytic torsion is a holomorphic function of the representation of the fundamental group. When the representation is unitary, the absolute value of the refined analytic torsion is equal to the Ray-Singer torsion, while its phase is determined by the eta-invariant. The fact that the Ray-Singer torsion and the eta-invariant can be combined into one holomorphic function allows to use methods of complex analysis to study both invariants.

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