THE EQUIVARIANT CHEEGER–MÜLLER THEOREM ON LOCALLY SYMMETRIC SPACES
THE EQUIVARIANT CHEEGER–MÜLLER THEOREM ON LOCALLY SYMMETRIC SPACES
In this paper, we provide a concrete interpretation of equivariant Reidemeister torsion, and demonstrate that Bismut–Zhang’s equivariant Cheeger–Müller theorem simplifies considerably when applied to locally symmetric spaces. In a companion paper, this allows us to extend recent results on torsion cohomology growth and torsion cohomology comparison for arithmetic locally symmetric …