Topological aspects of differential chains

DOI10.1007/S12220-010-9210-8MaRDI QIDQ692339zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jenny Harrison, Harrison Pugh

Publication date 5 December 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0383

zbMATH Keywords

inductive limitcurrentsMackey topologyreflexivebornologicaldifferential chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real-analytic and Nash manifolds (58A07) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Differentiability questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B10) Linear function spaces and their duals (46E99) Topology of topological vector spaces (57N17)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the topological properties of the space of differential chains 'B(U) defined on an open subset U of a Riemannian manifold M. We show that 'B(U) is not generally reflexive, identifying a fundamental difference between currents and differential chains. We also give several new brief (though non-constructive) definitions of the space 'B(U), and prove that it is a separable ultrabornological (DF)-space. Differential chains are closed under dual versions of fundamental operators of the Cartan calculus on differential forms. The space has good properties some of which are not exhibited by currents B'(U) or D'(U). For example, chains supported in finitely many points are dense in 'B(U) for all open U in M, but not generally in the strong dual topology of B'(U).

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