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Vorticity Gramian of compact Riemannian manifolds

General Mathematics 2022-10-14 v1

Abstract

The vorticity of a vector field on 3-dimensional Euclidean space is usually given by the curl of the vector field. In this paper, we extend this concept to n-dimensional compact and oriented Riemannian manifold. We analyse many properties of this operation. We prove that a vector field on a compact Riemannian manifold admits a unique Helmholtz decomposition and establish that every smooth vector field on an open neighbourhood of a compact Riemannian manifold admits a Stokes' type identity.

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@article{arxiv.2210.06552,
  title  = {Vorticity Gramian of compact Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Louis Omenyi and Emmanuel Nwaeze and Friday Oyakhire and Monday Ekhator},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06552},
  year   = {2022}
}