Equivariant de Rham torsions
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Equivariant de Rham torsions
zbMATH Open document ID: 1094.58013
author: Jean-Michel Bismut
author: Sebastian Goette
published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series
publication date: 2004-12-29T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.annm/1083697267
review text: The main result of this paper establishes a comparison formula for two natural versions of equivariant analytic torsion in de Rham theory. The first is the equivariant analytic torsion which has been introduced by \textit{J. Lott} and \textit{M. Rothenberg} [J. Differ. Geom. 34, 431--481 (1991; Zbl 0744.57021)]. It generalizes the classical Ray-Singer torsion, and is associated to an equivariant flat vector bundle over a closed manifold. \textit{J.-M. Bismut} and \textit{W. Zhang} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 4, 136--212 (1994; Zbl 0830.58030)] have compared this torsion to the equivariant Reidemeister torsion, generalizing the results of \textit{J. Lott} and \textit{M. Rothenberg} [loc. cit.] for unitarily flat vector bundles. The second is the so-called Chern equivariant infinitesimal analytic torsion, a renormalized version of the infinitesimal analytic torsion, motivated by normalizations appearing in [\textit{J.-M. Bismut} and \textit{S. Goette}, Families torsion and Morse functions Astérisque 275 (2001; Zbl 1071.58025)]. The main theorem of the paper under review expresses the difference of the equivariant analytic torsion and the Chern equivariant infinitesimal analytic torsion as the sum of two terms. The first one is an integral of a local quantity over the fixed point manifold. This term is `predicted' by the anomaly formulas, and contains contributions from the even dimensional components of the fixed point manifold only. The second summand is a subtler, but still local term, to which only the odd dimensional components of the fixed point manifold contribute. The essential part of the latter is a new invariant associated to a manifold equipped with the action of a compact Lie group, and is referred to as the \(V\)-invariant.
reviewed by: Stefan Haller
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J52
zbMATH DE Number: 2123892
zbMATH Keywords: equivariant analytic torsion
zbMATH Keywords: Chern equivariant infinitesimal analytic torsion
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2112679779
DOI: 10.4007/ANNALS.2004.159.53
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