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Integration, Homology and Cohomology

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To start from commonly familiar ground, the Euclidean space ℝn is considered. Let x=x 1, …, x n be Cartesian coordinates in ℝn so that the volume element (measure) is τ = dx 1dx n, a real number equal to the volume of an n -dimensional brick with edge lengths dx i

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Eschrig, H. (2010). Integration, Homology and Cohomology. In: Topology and Geometry for Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14700-5_5

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