Analytic surgery and analytic torsion

Analytic Surgery and Analytic Torsion

Analytic surgery, as defined in [9] and [6], is a one-parameter metric deformation of a Riemannian manifold M , which stretches M across a separating hypersurface H in a cylindrical fashion; the singular limit is a complete manifold with asymptotically cylindrical ends, M . In this paper, the analysis of [9] and [6] is used to study the behaviour of analytic torsion of unitary representations u...

Analytic Torsion for Families

Quaternionic analytic torsion

We define an (equivariant) quaternionic analytic torsion for antiselfdual vector bundles on quaternionic Kähler 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. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C25, 58J52, 53C26, 53C35

Refined analytic torsion

For a representation of the fundamental group of a compact oriented odd-dimensional manifold we define a refinement of the Ray-Singer torsion associated to this representation. If the representation is acyclic then our new invariant is a non-zero complex number, which can be viewed as an analytic counterpart of the refined combinatorial torsion introduced by Turaev. The refined analytic torsion...

Enriques Surfaces and Analytic Torsion

In a series of works [Bo3-5], Borcherds developed a theory of modular forms over domains of type IV which admits an infinite product expansion. Among such modular forms, Borcherds’s Φ-function ([Bo4]) has an interesting geometric background; It is a modular form on the moduli space of Enriques surfaces characterizing the discriminant locus. In his construction, Φ-function is obtained as the den...