Twisting Cochains and Higher Torsion
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This paper gives a short summary of the central role played by Ed Brown’s “twisting cochains” in higher FranzReidemeister (FR) torsion and higher analytic torsion. Briefly, any fiber bundle gives a twisting cochain which is unique up to fiberwise homotopy equivalence. However, when they are based, the difference between two of them is a higher algebraic K-theory class measured by higher FR torsion. Flat superconnections are also equivalent to twisting cochains. This paper is dedicated to Edgar Brown.
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Twisted Cochains and Higher Torsion
This paper gives a short summary of the central role played by Ed Brown’s “twisted cochains” in higher Franz-Reidemeister (FR) torsion and higher analytic torsion. Briefly, any fiber bundle gives a twisted cochain which is unique up to fiberwise homotopy equivalence. However, when they are based, the difference between two of them is a higher algebraic K-theory class measured by higher FR torsi...
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