Geometric Hodge star operator with applications to the theorems of Gauss and Green

DOI10.1017/S0305004105008716MaRDI QIDQ3373652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jenny Harrison

Publication date 13 March 2006

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0411063

zbMATH Keywords

Hodge star operatorchainlets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

Abstract: The classical divergence theorem for an $n$-dimensional domain $A$ and a smooth vector field $F$ in $n$-space ${\displaystyle }$int_{partial A} F cdot n = int_A div F${\displaystyle }$ requires that a normal vector field $n(p)$ be defined a.e. $pinpartialA$. In this paper we give a new proof and extension of this theorem by replacing $n$ with a limit $starpartialA$ of 1-dimensional polyhedral chains taken with respect to a norm. The operator $star$ is a geometric dual to the Hodge star operator and is defined on a large class of $k$-dimensional domains of integration $A$ in $n$-space the author calls {em chainlets}. Chainlets include a broad range of domains, from smooth manifolds to soap bubbles and fractals. We prove as our main result the Star theorem ${\displaystyle }$int_{star A} omega = (-1)^{k(n-k)}int_A star omega.${\displaystyle }$ When combined with the general Stokes' theorem for chainlet domains ${\displaystyle }$int_{partial A} omega = int_A d omega${\displaystyle }$ this result yields optimal and concise forms of Gauss' divergence theorem ${\displaystyle }$int_{star partial A}omega = (-1)^{(k-1)(n-k+1)} int_A dstar omega${\displaystyle }$ and Green's curl theorem ${\displaystyle }$int_{partial A} omega = int_{star A} star domega.${\displaystyle }$

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