Let n,m,k∈N. Let U⊆Rn and V⊆Rm be open subsets, let F:U→V be a C1 map, and let ω be a differential k-form on V. The pullback of ω by F is the differential k-form F∗ω on U defined by
(F∗ω)x(v1,…,vk)=ωF(x)(JF(x)v1,…,JF(x)vk)
for every x∈U and every vectors v1,…,vk∈Rn, where JF(x)vr denotes the matrix-vector product from the definition of matrix-vector multiplication, applied to the Jacobian matrix appearing in the differentiability definition.