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Analytic torsion is a functional on graphs which only needs linear algebra to be defined. In the continuum it corresponds to the Ray-Singer analytic torsion. We have formulas for analytic torsion if the graph is contractible or if it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Oliver Knill

We review the Reidemeister torsion, Ray-Singer's analytic torsion and the Cheeger-M"uller theorem. We describe the analytic torsion of the de Rham complex twisted by a flux form introduced by the current authors and recall its properties.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-13 Varghese Mathai , Siye Wu

In two previous papers with Yi-Jen Lee, we defined and computed a notion of Reidemeister torsion for the Morse theory of closed 1-forms on a finite dimensional manifold. The present paper gives an a priori proof that this Morse theory…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Hutchings

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Reidemeister torsion for quasi-isomorphisms of based chain complexes over a field. We call a chain map a quasi-isomorphism if its induced homomorphism between homology is an isomorphism. Our notion…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jae-Wook Chung , Xiao-Song Lin

We organize and extend a set of computations and structural observations about the Grigoryan--Lin--Muranov--Yau (GLMY) path complex of circulant digraphs $\vec{C}_n^S$ and circulant graphs $C_n^S$. Using the shift automorphism $\tau$ and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xinxing Tang , Shing-Tung Yau

We extend the definition of analytic and Reidemeister torsion from closed compact Riemannian manifolds to compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary $(M, \partial M)$, given a flat bundle $\Cal F$ of $\Cal A$-Hilbert modules of finite type…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 D. Burghelea , L. Friedlander , T. Kappeler

We define analytic torsion for the twisted de Rham complex, consisting of the spaces of differential forms on a compact oriented Riemannian manifold X valued in a flat vector bundle E, with a differential given by a flat connection on E…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Varghese Mathai , Siye Wu

We extend Turaev's theory of Euler structures and torsion invariants on 3-manifolds to the case of vector fields having generic behavior on the boundary. This allows to easily define gluings of Euler structures and to develop a completely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Stefano Borghini

We introduce a new notion of generalized log twisted curves, which are marked nodal curves with additional data at the marked points. In the case when the markings are distinct this notion agrees with the notion of twisted curve introduced…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Martin Olsson , Rachel Webb

In this paper, we study the Cartesian product of signed graphs as defined by Germina, Hameed and Zaslavsky (2011). Here we focus on its algebraic properties and look at the chromatic number of some Cartesian products. One of our main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Dimitri Lajou

We present an algorithm to compute path homology for simple digraphs, and use it to topologically analyze various small digraphs en route to an analysis of complex temporal networks which exhibit such digraphs as underlying motifs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Samir Chowdhury , Steve Huntsman , Matvey Yutin

We provide a simple topological derivation of a formula for the Reidemeister and the analityc torsion of spheres.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-06-16 T. de Melo , M. Spreafico

We develop a generalisation of the path homology theory introduced by Grigor'yan, Lin, Muranov and Yau (GLMY-theory) in a general simplicial setting. The new theory includes as particular cases the GLMY-theory for path complexes and new…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sergei O. Ivanov , Fedor Pavutnitskiy

We introduce and study, for a process P delivering edges on the Cartesian product of the vertex sets of a given set of graphs, the P-product of these graphs, thereby generalizing many types of product graph. Analogous to the notion of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Izak Broere , Johannes Heidema

We introduce the weighted path homology on the category of weigh\-ted directed hypergraphs and describe conditions of homotopy invariance of weighted path homology groups. We give several examples that explain the nontriviality of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Y. Muranov , A. Szczepkowska , V. Vershinin

In this article, we mainly obtain the Riemann-Hurwitz theorems for harmonic morphisms on (vertex-weighted) metric graphs or metrized complexes of algebraic curves, inspired of the recent work on harmonic morphisms of graphs or metrized…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Tingbin Cao , Mengnan Cheng

Recently, Cappell and Miller extended the classical construction of the analytic torsion for de Rham complexes to coupling with an arbitrary flat bundle and the holomorphic torsion for $\bar{\partial}$-complexes to coupling with an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-25 Rung-Tzung Huang

We develop the Lie theory of Lie-admissible algebras whose product is enriched with higher operations modeled on directed graphs with a view to apply it to the deformation theories controlled by this kind of Lie algebras. We produce…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Ricardo Campos , Bruno Vallette

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

We extend the holomorphic analytic torsion classes of Bismut and K\"ohler to arbitrary projective morphisms between smooth algebraic complex varieties. To this end, we propose an axiomatic definition and give a classification of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-14 J. I. Burgos Gil , G. Freixas i Montplet , R. Litcanu