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Closed 1-Forms and Twisted Cohomology

Differential Geometry 2023-05-02 v3

Abstract

We show that the first twisted cohomology group associated to closed 1-forms on compact manifolds is related to certain 2-dimensional representations of the fundamental group. In particular, we construct examples of nowhere-vanishing 1-forms with non-trivial twisted cohomology.

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@article{arxiv.2003.10368,
  title  = {Closed 1-Forms and Twisted Cohomology},
  author = {Andrei Moroianu and Mihaela Pilca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10368},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, a gap in the proof of Lemma 1.1 corrected

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