TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohomology of harmonic forms on Riemannian manifolds with boundary
AU - Cappell, Sylvain
AU - DeTurck, Dennis
AU - Gluck, Herman
AU - Miller, Edward Y.
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PY - 2006/11/20
Y1 - 2006/11/20
N2 - On a smooth compact manifold M, the cohomology of the complex of differential forms is isomorphic to the ordinary cohomology by the classical theorem of de Rham. When M has a Riemannian metric g, the harmonic forms constitute a subcomplex of the de Rham complex because the Laplacian commutes with exterior differentiation. When (M, g) has no boundary, all of its harmonic forms are closed, and hence the cohomology of this subcomplex is isomorphic to the ordinary cohomology by the classical theorem of Hodge. But when the boundary of (M, g) is non-empty, it is possible for a p-form to be harmonic without being closed, and some of these, which are exact, although not the exterior derivatives of harmonic p - 1-forms, represent an "echo" of the ordinary p - 1-dimensional cohomology within the p-dimensional harmonic cohomology.
AB - On a smooth compact manifold M, the cohomology of the complex of differential forms is isomorphic to the ordinary cohomology by the classical theorem of de Rham. When M has a Riemannian metric g, the harmonic forms constitute a subcomplex of the de Rham complex because the Laplacian commutes with exterior differentiation. When (M, g) has no boundary, all of its harmonic forms are closed, and hence the cohomology of this subcomplex is isomorphic to the ordinary cohomology by the classical theorem of Hodge. But when the boundary of (M, g) is non-empty, it is possible for a p-form to be harmonic without being closed, and some of these, which are exact, although not the exterior derivatives of harmonic p - 1-forms, represent an "echo" of the ordinary p - 1-dimensional cohomology within the p-dimensional harmonic cohomology.
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U2 - 10.1515/FORUM.2006.046
DO - 10.1515/FORUM.2006.046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847412336
SN - 0933-7741
VL - 18
SP - 923
EP - 931
JO - Forum Mathematicum
JF - Forum Mathematicum
IS - 6
ER -