English

Integrals and Potentials of Differential 1-forms on the Sierpinski Gasket

Functional Analysis 2013-04-01 v2 K-Theory and Homology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We provide a definition of integral, along paths in the Sierpinski gasket K, for differential smooth 1-forms associated to the standard Dirichlet form K. We show how this tool can be used to study the potential theory on K. In particular, we prove: i) a de Rham reconstruction of a 1-form from its periods around lacunas in K; ii) a Hodge decomposition of 1-forms with respect to the Hilbertian energy norm; iii) the existence of potentials of smooth 1-forms on a suitable covering space of K. We finally show that this framework provides versions of the de Rham duality theorem for the fractal K.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1995,
  title  = {Integrals and Potentials of Differential 1-forms on the Sierpinski Gasket},
  author = {Fabio Cipriani and Daniele Guido and Tommaso Isola and Jean-Luc Sauvageot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1995},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Some proofs have been clarified, reference to previous literature is now more accurate, 33 pages, 6 figures