Hodge-de Rham theory on fractal graphs and fractals

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DOI10.3934/CPAA.2014.13.903zbMATH Open1279.28011arXiv1206.1310OpenAlexW2963086304MaRDI QIDQ380177FDOQ380177


Authors: Skye Aaron, Zach Conn, Robert S. Strichartz, Hui Yu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 November 2013

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new approach to the theory of k-forms on self-similar fractals. We work out the details for two examples, the standard Sierpinski gasket and the 3-dimensional Sierpinski gasket, but the method is expected to be effective for many PCF fractals and also infinitely ramified fractals such as the Sierpinski carpet. Our approach is to construct k-forms and de Rham differential operators d and delta for a sequence of graphs approximating the fractal and then to pass to the limit with suitable renormalization, in imitation of Kigami's approach to constructing Laplacians on functions. One of our results is that our Laplacian on 0-forms is equal to Kigami's Laplacian on functions. We give explicit construction of harmonic 1-forms for our examples. We also prove that the measures on line segments provided by 1-forms are not absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measures.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1310




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