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Ray-Singer Torsion for a Hyperbolic 3-Manifold and Asymptotics of Chern-Simons-Witten Invariant

Andrei A. Bytsenko, Luciano Vanzo, Sergio Zerbini

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9704035

Abstract

The Ray-Singer torsion for a compact smooth hyperbolic 3-dimensional manifold H3 is expressed in terms of Selberg zeta-functions, making use of the associated Selberg trace formulae. Applications to the evaluation of the semiclassical asymptotics of the Witten's invariant for the Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SU(2) as well as to the sum over topologies in 3-dimensional quantum gravity are presented.

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