Universal torsion, L^2-invariants, polytopes and the Thurston norm
Author:
Wolfgang Lück
Date:
Thu, Jul 2, 2015
Location:
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference:
PIMS Symposium on the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds
Abstract:
We introduce universal torsion which is defined for $L^2$-acyclic manifolds with torsion free fundamental group and takes values in certain $K_1$-groups of a skew field associated to the integral group ring. It encompasses well-know invariants such as the Alexander polynomial and $L^2$-torsion. We discuss also twisted $L^2$-torsion and higher order Alexander polynomials which can also be derived from the universal invariant and assign certain polytopes to the universal torsion. This gives especially in dimension 3 interesting invariants which recover for instance the Thurston norm.
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