{ "id": "2411.16716", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-11-22T22:15:35.000Z", "updated": "2024-11-22T22:15:35.000Z", "title": "Equivalence of different definitions of higher $ρ$ invariants", "authors": [ "Hongzhi Liu", "Zhizhang Xie", "Guoliang Yu" ], "comment": "28 pages", "categories": [ "math.AT", "math.OA" ], "abstract": "For each orientation-preserving homotopy equivalence between two closed oriented smooth manifolds, there are mainly two different approaches to the higher $\\rho$ invariant associated to this homotopy equivalence. In this article, we show that these two definitions of the higher $\\rho$ invariant are equivalent.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-11-22T22:15:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "definitions", "orientation-preserving homotopy equivalence", "closed oriented smooth manifolds", "approaches" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 28, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }