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de Rham complex

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Summary

The cochain complex of differential forms with exterior derivative dd, satisfying d2=0d^2=0.

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Canonically induces

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The de Rham theorem identifies this cohomology with singular cohomology over R\mathbb R under standard hypotheses.

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Differential formde Rham complex

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Authored explanation

The exterior derivative organizes differential forms into a cochain complex.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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Exterior derivativede Rham complex

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Repeated exterior derivatives vanish, so the spaces of differential forms and the operator dd form the de Rham cochain complex.

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de Rham complexMaxwell equations

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The homogeneous Maxwell equation is dF=0dF=0 and the sourced equation uses the Hodge dual and current form.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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