Operator calculus of differential chains and differential forms

DOI10.1007/S12220-013-9433-6MaRDI QIDQ2256840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 23 February 2015

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4528

currents differential chains differential forms Dirac divergence theorem extrusion inductive limit Laplace prederivative pushforward Stokes' theorem topological vector space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

Abstract: Differential chains are a proper subspace of de Rham currents given as an inductive limit of Banach spaces endowed with a geometrically defined strong topology. Boundary is a continuous operator, as are operators that dualize to Hodge star, Lie derivative, pullback and interior product. Partitions of unity exist in this setting, as does Cartesian wedge product. Subspaces of finitely supported Dirac chains and polyhedral chains are both dense, leading to a unification of the discrete with the smooth continuum. We conclude with an application generalizing a simple version of the Reynolds' Transport Theorem to rough domains.

Review text

Recall that Dirac chains are finitely supported multivector fields. For any open subset \(U\) of Euclidean space, the author defines a topological vector space, the space of differential chains, which contains Dirac chains and polyhedral chains on \(U\), and which admits partitions of unity, and for which boundary is a continuous operator. The usual operators on Euclidean differential forms have continuous analogues for these chains. Roughly speaking, in order to define differential chains, one tries to write a given Dirac chain using small coefficients in front of a, possibly large, number of applications of discrete difference operators, but with the differences themselves being small. Dirac chains expressible in this way are treated as small, in a suitable family of topologies. The space of differential chains is a limit of Dirac chains with these topologies. The author uses differential chains to extend Reynold's transport theorem to nonsmooth domains.

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