Normal and compact solvability of the exterior differentiation operator under homogeneous boundary conditions (Q1105887)

Different problems, related with the solvability of the equation \(du=f\) on Riemannian manifolds, are of constant interest, especially the last decade in the non-classical context of Lipschitz manifolds. Let M be a smooth Riemannian manifold with boundary \(\partial M\). Considering the restriction \(d_{\Gamma}\) of the exterior derivative d on some subspaces \(\Gamma\), naturally related with d, of differential forms with square integrable module, the authors introduce the notions of normal and compact solvability of the operator \(d_{\Gamma}\). The paper under review is devoted to the problem of the normal and compact solvability of \(d_{\Gamma}\). It is proved that in the general case of compact M this problem reduces to the analogous problem on the cylinder \(I\times \partial M\), \(I=[0,1]\). Concerning compact solvability, interesting conditions on \(\Gamma\), related with the Hodge-Kodaira decomposition of \(L\) \(*_ 2(\partial M)\), are given. Different particular cases of \(\Gamma\) are considered too, and the interconnection with other papers is discussed.