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Survey on $L^2$-torsion and its (future) applications

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Speaker: 
Wolfgang Lück
Zugehörigkeit: 
Universität Bonn
Datum: 
Die, 14/05/2024 - 10:00 - 11:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

$L^2$-Betti numbers have played and continue to play an important role in group theory, often as obstructions to some properties of groups. If all $L^2$-Betti  numbers vanish, then one can define a secondary invariant, the $L^2$-torsion, which is the $L^2$-analogue of the classical notion of Reidemeister torsion. It is a more sophisticated and richer but also harder to analyze invariant.  In this talk we want to describe some of its applications and relations to group theory and 3-manifolds which should illustrate its potential. Finally  we discuss some interesting open problems about $L^2$-torsion. The talk is meant as a survey and not as a talk conveying technical details.

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