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A remark on the higher torsion invariants for flat vector bundles with finite holonomy

Differential Geometry 2022-12-06 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We show that the Igusa-Klein topological torsion and the Bismut-Lott analytic torsion are equivalent for any flat vector bundle whose holonomy is a finite subgroup of GLn(Q)\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{Q}). Our proof uses Artin's induction theorem in representation theory to reduce the problem to the special case of trivial flat line bundles, which is a recent result of Puchol, Zhu and the second author. The idea of using Artin's induction theorem appeared in a paper of Ohrt on the same topic, of which our present work is an improvement.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02353,
  title  = {A remark on the higher torsion invariants for flat vector bundles with finite holonomy},
  author = {Lie Fu and Yeping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02353},
  year   = {2022}
}

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revised version, 8 pages