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The asymptotics of the Ray-Singer analytic torsion associated with high powers of a positive line bundle

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The purpose of this paper is to establish an asymptotic fomula for the Ray-Singer analytic torsion associated with increasing powers of a given positive line bundle.

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

This paper was written while the first author was visiting the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette) during the academic year 1987–1988

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Bismut, JM., Vasserot, E. The asymptotics of the Ray-Singer analytic torsion associated with high powers of a positive line bundle. Commun.Math. Phys. 125, 355–367 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01217912

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