Outline of Higher Igusa-klein Torsion
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I will give an outline of the definition and basic properties of the version of higher Reidemeister torsion developed by John Klein and myself using parametrized Morse theory and polylogarithms. I also explain how this higher torsion is calculated first from the definition and from the axioms. I also explain at the end how these axioms might be extended to the case of nontrivial representations which factor through finite groups.
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