RT Journal Article T1 The Chern-Simons invariants of hyperbolic manifolds via covering spaces A1 Hilden, Hugh Michael A1 Lozano Imízcoz, María Teresa A1 Montesinos Amilibia, José María AB The Chern-Simons invariant was extended to 3-dimensional geometric cone manifolds in [H. M. Hilden, M. T. Lozano and J. M. Montesinos-Amilibia, J. Math. Sci. Univ. Tokyo 3 (1996), no. 3, 723–744; MR1432115 (98h:57056)]. The present paper is about the behavior of this generalized invariant under change of orientation and with respect to virtually regular coverings. (A virtually regular cover is a cover with the property that the branching index is constant along the fiber over each point of the branching set.) As one might suspect, CS(−M)=−CS(M). However, unlike the volume, the Chern-Simons invariant is not multiplicative with respect to branched coverings. There is a correction term depending on the intersection number of longitudes of inverse images of the singular set with the inverse image of the longitude of the singular set. The paper concludes with applications of the main formula to specific examples. PB Oxford University Press SN 0024-6093 YR 1991 FD 1991 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58642 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58642 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 13 abr 2025