Fractional currents and Young geometric integration
Abstract
We introduce a class of flat currents with fractal properties, called fractional currents, which satisfy a compactness theorem and remain stable under pushforwards by H\"older continuous maps. In top dimension, fractional currents are the currents represented by functions belonging to a fractional Sobolev space. The space of -fractional currents is in duality with a class of cochains, -fractional charges, that extend both Whitney's flat cochains and -H\"older continuous forms. We construct a partially defined wedge product between fractional charges, enabling a generalization of the Young integral to arbitrary dimensions and codimensions. This helps us identify -fractional -currents as metric currents of the snowflaked metric space .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.09298,
title = {Fractional currents and Young geometric integration},
author = {Philippe Bouafia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09298},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
to appear in Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci