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Fractional currents and Young geometric integration

Functional Analysis 2026-04-09 v2

Abstract

We introduce a class of flat currents with fractal properties, called fractional currents, which satisfy a compactness theorem and remain stable under pushforwards by H\"older continuous maps. In top dimension, fractional currents are the currents represented by functions belonging to a fractional Sobolev space. The space of α\alpha-fractional currents is in duality with a class of cochains, α\alpha-fractional charges, that extend both Whitney's flat cochains and α\alpha-H\"older continuous forms. We construct a partially defined wedge product between fractional charges, enabling a generalization of the Young integral to arbitrary dimensions and codimensions. This helps us identify α\alpha-fractional mm-currents as metric currents of the snowflaked metric space (Rd,dEucl(m+α)/(m+1))(\mathbb{R}^d, \mathrm{d}_{\mathrm{Eucl}}^{(m+\alpha)/(m+1)}).

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@article{arxiv.2503.09298,
  title  = {Fractional currents and Young geometric integration},
  author = {Philippe Bouafia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09298},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

to appear in Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:17:28.243Z