Functoriality of de Rham cohomology #
A smooth map pulls smooth forms back and commutes with the exterior derivative. Consequently it
induces a contravariant map on the de Rham complex and on de Rham cohomology. The induced map sends
the class of a closed form to the class of its pullback, preserves identity maps, and reverses
composition. In particular a diffeomorphism induces a linear equivalence on de Rham cohomology,
TauCeti.deRhamCohomology.equivOfDiffeomorph.
Pullback also defines a cochain map of de Rham complexes, TauCeti.deRhamComplex.map, which
induces the map on cohomology (TauCeti.deRhamComplex.homologyMap_map). It is stated for
manifolds whose model vector spaces share one universe and whose underlying types share another,
so that their de Rham complexes live in the same category of complexes of modules.
References #
- John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, 2nd ed., Chapter 17.
Pullback of closed smooth forms along a smooth map.
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The underlying smooth form of a pullback of a closed form is the usual smooth pullback.
Pullback of closed forms by the identity is the identity linear map.
Pullback of closed forms reverses composition.
Pullback preserves exact forms.
The contravariant map on de Rham cohomology induced by a smooth map.
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The induced map sends the class of a closed form to the class of its pullback.
The map on de Rham cohomology induced by the identity is the identity.
Pullback on de Rham cohomology reverses composition of smooth maps.
A smooth diffeomorphism Φ : M ≃ M' induces a linear equivalence H^k(M') ≃ H^k(M) on de Rham
cohomology: pullback along Φ, with inverse pullback along Φ.symm.
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The equivalence induced by a diffeomorphism is pullback along it.
The inverse of the equivalence induced by a diffeomorphism is pullback along its inverse.
The induced cochain maps compare complexes in one universe, so the model spaces share a universe, as do the manifolds.
The cochain map of de Rham complexes induced by a smooth map, given in each degree by pullback of smooth forms.
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Under the canonical identifications of the objects, the induced cochain map is pullback of smooth forms.
Under the canonical identifications of the objects, the induced cochain map is pullback of smooth forms.
The induced cochain map, on a form read through the canonical identification of the
degree-k object, is pullback of that form.
The identity map induces the identity cochain map.
The induced cochain maps reverse composition of smooth maps.
The map induced on cohomology by the cochain map of a smooth map is pullback on de Rham cohomology.