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Densities, pseudoforms, absolute differential forms and measures, differential forms, etc
Apologies if this question is too basic, but I figured I first heard of most of these concepts on MO, so perhaps I can ask here.
Gelfand’s definition, copied from AlvarezPaiva [My edit, could be ...
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Mass of the push forward of a k-current with fixed orientation
$\DeclareMathOperator{\Mass}{Mass}$Let $f: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ be a smoth map. Given a $2$-vector (in general a $k$-vector but let's stick to $2$) $v_1 \wedge v_2 \in \Lambda_2 (\mathbb{R}^...
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Differential forms and continuous maps
Let
$$
X
\xrightarrow{f}
Z
\xleftarrow{g}
Y
$$
be smooth manifolds and smooth maps (smooth = $C^\infty$),
and
$$
X
\xrightarrow{K}
Y
$$
be a continuous map such that $f=g\circ K$.
Let $\...
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(n-1)-dimensional normal currents and Smirnov's paper
I don't know much about currents, but I saw a paper of Smirnov which seems relevant to a problem I am working on. In the very last paragraph of page 848 of the following paper
http://www.unige.ch/~...