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Tim Höpfner

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Two-Parameter Novikov-Shubin Invariants for Fibre Bundles

In this paper we construct a two-parameter version of spectral density functions and Novikov-Shubin invariants on fibre bundles. The aim of this approach is to gain a better understanding of how the near-zero spectrum of the Hodge Laplace operators on the fibre and the base of a fibre bundle contribute separately to the near-zero spectrum of the Laplace operators of the total space. We show that this two-parameter generalisation of the classical spectral density function still satisfies several invariance properties. As an example, we compute it explicitly for the three-dimensional Heisenberg group.

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Laplacians and Random Walks on CW Complexes

We construct random walks taking place on the k-cells of free G-CW complexes of finite type. These random walks define operators acting on the cellular k-chains that relate nicely to the (upper) cellular k-Laplacian. As an application, we use this relation to show that the Novikov-Shubin invariants of a free G-CW complex X of finite type can be recovered from quantities related to return probabilities of the random walks on the cells of X.

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