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Main Author: Duan, Jianru
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10145
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author Duan, Jianru
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contents For any compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold $N$ with empty or incompressible toral boundary, the twisted $L^2$-torsion is a non-negative function defined on the representation variety $\operatorname{Hom}(π_1(N),\operatorname{SL}(n,\mathbb C))$. The paper shows that if $N$ has infinite fundamental group, then the $L^2$-torsion function is strictly positive. Moreover, this torsion function is continuous when restricted to the subvariety of upper triangular representations.
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spellingShingle On the positivity of twisted $L^2$-torsion for 3-manifolds
Duan, Jianru
Geometric Topology
57K31
For any compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold $N$ with empty or incompressible toral boundary, the twisted $L^2$-torsion is a non-negative function defined on the representation variety $\operatorname{Hom}(π_1(N),\operatorname{SL}(n,\mathbb C))$. The paper shows that if $N$ has infinite fundamental group, then the $L^2$-torsion function is strictly positive. Moreover, this torsion function is continuous when restricted to the subvariety of upper triangular representations.
title On the positivity of twisted $L^2$-torsion for 3-manifolds
topic Geometric Topology
57K31
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10145