Smooth Differential k-Form on a Smooth Manifold with Boundary
definitionTopologyGeometryMultivariable Calculusdef:smooth-differential-k-form-manifold-boundary-2026bLet , and let be a smooth manifold with boundary of dimension , with chosen smooth atlas ; for each write . Each is open in the closed upper half-space of Euclidean space , hence an admissible domain in the sense of Continuous n-Form, Support, and Zero Extension on a Euclidean or Half-Space Domain. Let .
A smooth differential -form on is a family with the following three properties.
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For each , assigns to each point an alternating -linear form on . The assignment is called the chart representative of in the chart .
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(Local smoothness.) For each and each there exist an open set with and a differential -form on whose coefficient functions in the coordinate expansion are smooth, such that for every .
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(Compatibility.) For all with , consider the transition map from to ; it is a smooth diffeomorphism of admissible domains, its local smooth extensions being furnished by the smooth compatibility of the charts. The requirement is that the pullback satisfies
on , where is restricted to .
When , each is a real-valued function on and property 3 states that on chart overlaps. Consequently there is a well-defined function given by for any chart with , and we identify smooth differential -forms on with such functions, called smooth functions on .
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