Euler structures, the variety of representations and the Milnor-Turaev torsion

DOI10.2140/gt.2006.10.1185zbMath1204.58027arXivmath/0310154OpenAlexW3100405630MaRDI QIDQ860152

Stefan Haller, Dan Burghelea

Publication date: 23 January 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310154

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoryanalytic torsionrational functionmapping torusco-Euler structurecombinatorial torsiongeometric regularizationtheorem of Bismut-Zhang

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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