Smoothness and differentiation of paired wedges #
Families of alternating maps can be wedged without loss of regularity. The pairing itself may vary: differentiating the paired wedge gives three terms, one for each input. For a fixed pairing the first term vanishes. The relative statements apply to arbitrary sets, including chart ranges of manifolds with boundary or corners.
For a fixed pairing, alternatizing this derivative gives the Leibniz rule for the exterior
derivative, d (φ ∧ ψ) = dφ ∧ ψ + (-1) ^ k • φ ∧ dψ for a k-form φ
(TauCeti.extDerivWithin_pairedWedge).
The construction uses ContinuousAlternatingMap.pairedWedgeCLM and Mathlib's calculus of
application of continuous linear maps; ContDiff.wedge specializes the regularity statement to
the real wedge of real-valued forms. A paired wedge with a compactly supported second factor is
compactly supported (HasCompactSupport.pairedWedge_left, HasCompactSupport.wedge_left).
These results provide the coefficient calculus for wedge products of smooth bundle-valued forms.
The wedge normalization follows John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition,
Chapter 14.
The paired wedge of C^n families and a C^n pairing is C^n within a set at a point.
The paired wedge preserves C^n regularity on an arbitrary set.
The paired wedge preserves C^n regularity at a point.
The paired wedge of C^n families and a C^n pairing is C^n.
The real wedge of C^n families of real-valued forms is C^n.
The paired wedge of a family of forms with a compactly supported family is compactly
supported, as for HasCompactSupport.mul_left.
The real wedge of a family of real-valued forms with a compactly supported family is compactly supported.
The paired wedge of differentiable families is differentiable within a set at a point.
The paired wedge of differentiable families is differentiable on a set.
The paired wedge of differentiable families is differentiable at a point.
The paired wedge of differentiable families is differentiable.
Derivative witnesses for a pairing and two forms give the three-term derivative of their paired wedge within an arbitrary set.
Derivative witnesses for a pairing and two forms give the three-term derivative of their paired wedge at a point.
Differentiating a paired wedge within a unique-differentiability set gives one term for each of the pairing and the two forms.
Differentiating a paired wedge gives one term for each of its three inputs.
The Leibniz rule for the exterior derivative of a paired wedge within a set:
d (φ ∧ ψ) = dφ ∧ ψ + (-1) ^ k • φ ∧ dψ for a k-form φ and a fixed continuous bilinear
pairing. The degrees k + 1 + l and k + (l + 1) are identified with k + l + 1 by Fin.cast.
The Leibniz rule for the exterior derivative of a paired wedge:
d (φ ∧ ψ) = dφ ∧ ψ + (-1) ^ k • φ ∧ dψ for a k-form φ and a fixed continuous bilinear
pairing.