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Reidemeister torsion for flat superconnections

Differential Geometry 2011-08-26 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We use higher parallel transport -- more precisely, the integration A_{infty}-functor constructed by Block-Smith and Arias Abad-Schaetz -- to define Reidemeister torsion for flat superconnections. We hope that the combinatorial Reidemeister torsion coincides with the analytic torsion defined by Mathai and Wu, thus permitting for a generalization of the Cheeger-Mueller Theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5103,
  title  = {Reidemeister torsion for flat superconnections},
  author = {Camilo Arias Abad and Florian Schaetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5103},
  year   = {2011}
}

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23 pages

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