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We construct rigid supersymmetric theories for interacting vector and tensor multiplets on six-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds. Analyzing the Killing spinor equations, we derive the constraints on these theories. To this end, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Henning Samtleben , Ergin Sezgin , Dimitrios Tsimpis

We introduce a new notion of a curvature of a superconnection, different from the one obtained by a purely algebraic analogy with the curvature of a linear connection. The naturalness of this new notion of a curvature of a superconnection…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Petko Nikolov , Lora Nikolova , Gergana Ruseva

We study Reidemeister-Franz torsion for non-acyclic cellular chain complexes arising from closed, oriented, highly connected even dimensional manifolds. The monoid of such manifolds under connected sum admits a unique factorisation into…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Esma Dirican Erdal

We prove equality between the renormalized Ray-Singer analytic torsion and the intersection R-torsion on a Witt-manifold with cusps, up to an error term determined explicitly by the Betti numbers of the cross section of the cusp and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Boris Vertman

We generalize Turaev's definition of torsion invariants of pairs $(M,\xi)$, where $M$ is a 3-dimensional manifold and $\xi$ is an Euler structure on $M$ (a non-singular vector field up to homotopy relative to the boundary of $M$ and local…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Riccardo Benedetti , Carlo Petronio

We generalize Turaev's definition of torsion invariants of pairs (M,x), where M is a 3-dimensional manifold and x is an Euler structure on M (a non-singular vector field up to homotopy relative to bM and local modifications in int(M).…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Carlo Petronio

We calculate the twisted Reidemeister torsion of the complement of an iterated torus knot associated with a representation of its fundamental group to the complex special linear group of degree two. We also show that the twisted…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Hitoshi Murakami

For a non-compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with cusps we prove an explicit formula that relates the regularized analytic torsion associated to the even symmetric powers of the standard representation of SL_2(C) to the corresponding…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Jonathan Pfaff

We propose a definition for analytic torsion of the contact complex on contact manifolds. We show it coincides with Ray-Singer torsion on any 3-dimensional CR Seifert manifold equipped with a unitary representation. In this particular case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Michel Rumin , Neil Seshadri

This paper develops a form of finite knot theory as a diagrammatic sequel to the ideal-stratum and deformation-persistence framework for knot types. Thick representatives in bounded ropelength sublevel spaces are studied through the finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Makoto Ozawa

We define geometric zeta functions for locally symmetric spaces as generalizations of the zeta functions of Ruelle and Selberg. As a special value at zero we obtain the Reidemeister torsion of the manifold. For hermitian spaces these zeta…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Anton Deitmar

We establish a Cheeger-Muller theorem for unimodular representations satisfying a Witt condition on a noncompact manifold with cusps. This class of spaces includes all non-compact hyperbolic spaces of finite volume, but we do not assume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Pierre Albin , Frédéric Rochon , David Sher

We extend the complex-valued analytic torsion, introduced by Burghelea and Haller on closed manifolds, to compact Riemannian bordisms. We do so by considering a flat complex vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold, endowed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Osmar Maldonado Molina

Recently twisted and higher order Alexander polynomials were used by Cochran, Harvey, Friedl--Kim and Turaev to give lower bounds on the Thurston norm. We first show how Reidemeister torsion relates to these Alexander polynomials. We then…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Friedl

We define functorial isomorphisms of parallel transport along \'etale paths for a class of principal $G$-bundles on a $p$-adic curve. Here $G$ is a connected reductive algebraic group of finite presentation and the considered principal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-08 Urs Hackstein

We develop a full 6-functor formalism for $p$-torsion \'etale sheaves in rigid-analytic geometry. More concretely, we use the recently developed condensed mathematics by Clausen--Scholze to associate to every small v-stack (e.g.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Lucas Mann

We extend the hierarchy functors of [33] to the case of strong symplectic cobordisms, via deformations with Maurer--Cartan elements. In particular, we prove that the concave boundary of a strong cobordism has finite algebraic planar torsion…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Agustin Moreno , Zhengyi Zhou

Riemannian Geometry, Topology and Dynamics permit to introduce partially defined holomorphic functions on the variety of representations of the fundamental group of a manifold. The functions we consider are the complex valued Ray-Singer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Burghelea , Stefan Haller

The potential function of the optimistic limit of the colored Jones polynomial and the construction of the solution of the hyperbolicity equations were defined in the authors' previous articles. In this article, we define the Reidemeister…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Jinseok Cho , Jun Murakami

We develop a theory of link projections to trivalent spines of 3-manifolds. We prove a Reidemeister Theorem providing a set of combinatorial moves sufficient to relate the projections of isotopic links. We also show that any link admits a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Jack Brand , Benjamin A. Burton , Zsuzsanna Dancso , Alexander He , Adele Jackson , Joan Licata