The Gauss-Green theorem for fractal boundaries (Q1196423)

Let \(\Omega\) be a compact smooth \(n\)-manifold with boundary in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) and \(\omega\) a smooth \((n-1)\)-form in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). Then we have the following Gauss-Green-Stokes formula: \[ \int_{\partial\Omega}\omega=\int_{\Omega}d\omega. \] The situations in which the above formula holds require fairly strong hypothesis on the boundary \(\partial\Omega\), e.g., that it should have sigma-finite \((n- 1)\)-measure, or that the gradient of the characteristic function of \(\Omega\) be a vector-valued measure with finite total variation. In the paper under review the authors give an extension of this formula to the domains \(\Omega\) with fractal boundaries.