The Ray-Singer torsion
Differential Geometry
2024-01-26 v2 History and Overview
Abstract
In 1971, Ray and Singer proposed an analytic equivalent of a classical topological invariant, the R-torsion. This Ray-Singer torsion has had many ramifications in mathematics and physics. I will describe the background, the Ray-Singer papers and some subsequent work.
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@article{arxiv.2309.05688,
title = {The Ray-Singer torsion},
author = {John Lott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05688},
year = {2024}
}
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