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On the naturality of the exterior differential

Analysis of PDEs 2008-01-29 v1

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions for the naturallity of the exterior differential under Sobolev mappings. In other words we study the validity of the equation dfα=fdαd f^* \alpha = f^* d\alpha for a smooth form α\alpha and a Sobolev map ff.

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@article{arxiv.0801.4295,
  title  = {On the naturality of the exterior differential},
  author = {Vladimir Gol'dshtein and Marc Troyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4295},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages