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Differential form

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Summary

A smooth section of an exterior-power cotangent bundle; differential forms can be integrated and differentiated by dd.

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Canonically induces

Notes

A differential kk-form is alternating and covariant; orientation is not required merely to define forms.

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Smooth manifoldDifferential form

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Authored explanation

Differential forms are smooth sections of exterior powers of the cotangent bundle.

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Differential formde Rham complex

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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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Differential formElectromagnetic field

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The electromagnetic field strength is represented by a differential two-form FF.

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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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