Non-commutative Reidemeister torsion and Morse-Novikov theory
Abstract
Given a circle-valued Morse function of a closed oriented manifold, we prove that Reidemeister torsion over a non-commutative formal Laurent polynomial ring equals the product of a certain non-commutative Lefschetz-type zeta function and the algebraic torsion of the Novikov complex over the ring. This paper gives a generalization of the result of Hutchings and Lee on abelian coefficients to the case of skew fields. As a consequence we obtain a Morse theoretical and dynamical description of the higher-order Reidemeister torsion.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.4174,
title = {Non-commutative Reidemeister torsion and Morse-Novikov theory},
author = {Takahiro Kitayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4174},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages; 13 pages, added important references for the introduction; changed the fixed generator $t$ into the inverse one; 15 pages, redefined the non-commutative zeta function; to appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society