Analytic torsion convergence conjecture for Benjamini–Schramm covers

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Let MM be a fixed closed hyperbolic 33-manifold, and let MnM_n be covers of MM that Benjamini–Schramm converge to hyperbolic 33-space H3\mathbb{H}^3. The analytic torsion convergence conjecture. One should have

τ(Mn)vol⁡(Mn)→16π.\frac{\tau(M_n)}{\operatorname{vol}(M_n)} \to \frac{1}{6\pi}.

This is presented as a broadening of the first, analytic-torsion part of the Bergeron–Venkatesh conjecture from arithmetic towers to all covers of a fixed closed hyperbolic 33-manifold. The source reports computational evidence supporting it, while also giving examples showing that Benjamini–Schramm convergence alone does not force the same conclusion for arbitrary sequences.

References

Primary source

Jeffrey F. Brock and Nathan M. Dunfield, “Injectivity radii of hyperbolic integer homology 3-spheres”, arXiv:1304.0391 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1210.2961.

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