Scalar coordinates for top-degree continuous alternating forms #
Over a complete nontrivially normed field, evaluation on a basis identifies the space of
top-degree forms with the scalar field as a continuous linear equivalence. Its inverse
multiplies the continuous determinant form of that basis, so these forms make up a line
(Module.Basis.finrank_continuousAlternatingMap_eq_one). This construction needs only a
Hausdorff topological vector space, with no choice of norm or inner product.
The determinant form of a basis as a continuous alternating map.
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Evaluation on a basis is a continuous linear equivalence from top-degree forms to scalars.
The inverse sends c to c times the determinant form of the basis.
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The inverse scalar coordinate map multiplies the continuous determinant form.
The top-degree scalar-valued continuous alternating forms on a space with a finite basis form a line.