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We develop a combinatorial theory of vector bundles with connection on locally ordered simplicial complexes. This is a first step towards a discrete exterior calculus for bundle-valued forms. The basic building block is the discrete…

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We present a theory and applications of discrete exterior calculus on simplicial complexes of arbitrary finite dimension. This can be thought of as calculus on a discrete space. Our theory includes not only discrete differential forms but…

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Complexes of discrete distributional differential forms are introduced into finite element exterior calculus. Thus we generalize a notion of Braess and Sch\"oberl, originally studied for a posteriori error estimation. We construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Martin Werner Licht

We develop in this work the first polytopal complexes of differential forms. These complexes, inspired by the Discrete De Rham and the Virtual Element approaches, are discrete versions of the de Rham complex of differential forms built on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Francesco Bonaldi , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Kaibo Hu

Fractional vector calculus is the building block of the fractional partial differential equations that model non-local or long-range phenomena, e.g., anomalous diffusion, fractional electromagnetism, and fractional advection-dispersion. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Alon Jacobson , Xiaozhe Hu

In exterior calculus on smooth manifolds, the exterior derivative and wedge product are natural with respect to smooth maps between manifolds, that is, these operations commute with pullback. In discrete exterior calculus (DEC), simplicial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mark D. Schubel , Daniel Berwick-Evans , Anil N. Hirani

We give an elegant formulation of the structure equations (of Cartan) and the Bianchi identities in terms of exterior calculus without reference to a particular basis and without the exterior covariant derivative. This approach allows both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Thoan Do , Geoff Prince

Discrete exterior calculus offers a coordinate--free discretization of exterior calculus especially suited for computations on meshes over curved manifolds. The discretization of the wedge product, that would be compatible with discrete…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Lenka Ptackova

Simplicial, piecewise-flat discretizations of manifolds provide a clear path towards curvature analysis on discrete geometries and for solutions of PDE's on manifolds of complex topologies. In this manuscript we review and expand on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Jonathan R. McDonald , Warner A. Miller , Paul M. Alsing , Xianfeng D. Gu , Xuping Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

We introduce $\Psi \mathrm{ec}$, a discretization of Cartan's exterior calculus of differential forms using wavelets. Our construction consists of differential $r$-form wavelets with flexible directional localization that provide tight…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Christian Lessig

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) offers a coordinate-free discretization of exterior calculus especially suited for computations on curved spaces. In this work, we present an extended version of DEC on surface meshes formed by general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lenka Ptackova , Luiz Velho

A short proof of convergence for the discretization of the Hodge-Dirac operator in the framework of discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is provided using the techniques established in [Johnny Guzm\'an and Pratyush Potu, A Framework for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Radovan Dabetić , Ralf Hiptmair

This paper addresses the issue of structure-preserving discretization of open distributed-parameter systems with Hamiltonian dynamics. Employing the formalism of discrete exterior calculus, we introduce a simplicial Dirac structure as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Marko Seslija , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

We develop exterior calculus approaches for partial differential equations on radial manifolds. We introduce numerical methods that approximate with spectral accuracy the exterior derivative $\mathbf{d}$, Hodge star $\star$, and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Ben J. Gross , Paul J. Atzberger

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

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We provide the Cartan calculus for bicovariant differential forms on bicrossproduct quantum groups $k(M)\lrbicross kG$ associated to finite group factorizations $X=GM$ and a field $k$. The irreducible calculi are associated to certain…

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This article offers a new perspective for the mechanics of solids using moving Cartan's frame, specifically discussing a mixed variational principle in non-linear elasticity. We treat quantities defined on the co-tangent bundles of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bensingh Dhas , Jamun Kumar N , Debasish Roy , J N Reddy

We provide a brief overview on the application of the exterior calculus of differential forms to the ab initio formulation of field theories on random simplicial lattices. In this framework, discrete analogues of the exterior derivative and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 F. L. Teixeira

This work is thought as an operative guide to discrete exterior calculus (DEC), but at the same time with a rigorous exposition. We present a version of (DEC) on cubic cell, defining it for discrete manifolds. An example of how it works, it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leonardo De Carlo

Fractional partial differential equations (FDEs) are used to describe phenomena that involve a "non-local" or "long-range" interaction of some kind. Accurate and practical numerical approximation of their solutions is challenging due to the…

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