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Availability of a copy the first volume of Segre's "Forme differenziali e loro integrali"

I am precisely referring to the following, first volume of the textbook/lecture notes/monograph written by Beniamino Segre in the fifties of the twentieth century (I own a copy of the second volume) ...
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Hodge decomposition of smooth n-forms: is it an isomorphism of topological vector spaces?

Fix a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ (leaving the metric implicit). What I'd like to know is if the corresponding Hodge decomposition of smooth $n$-forms $$ \Omega^n(M) \simeq \mathcal{H}^n(M)\oplus ...
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Codifferential of wedge of two 1-forms

Let $\omega,\eta$ be two 1-forms on a manifold $M$. I'm interested in an expression for $$ \delta(\omega\wedge\eta) $$ where $\delta$ is the co-differential operator $\Lambda^2(M)\to\Lambda^1(M)$. ...
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Equivalence generated by Jacobian minors

Let $f,g:\mathbb{R}^m \to \mathbb{R}^n$ be two smooth functions and let $k$ be a strictly positive integer. Write $f \sim_k g$ if at each point in the domain, the determinants of all $k \times k$ ...
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Tischler's Theorem on nonvanishing $1$-forms on open manifolds

I have been trying to find a generalized version of the following theorem due to D. Tischler, Theorem 1. Let $M^n$ be a closed $n$-dimensional manifold. SUppose $M^n$ admits a nonvanishing closed $1$-...