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Hodge's Theorem


On a compact oriented Finsler manifold without boundary, every cohomology class has a unique harmonic representation. The dimension of the space of all harmonic forms of degree p is the pth Betti number of the manifold.


See also

Betti Number, Cohomology, Dimension, Finsler Space

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References

Chern, S.-S. "Finsler Geometry is Just Riemannian Geometry without the Quadratic Restriction." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 43, 959-963, 1996.

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Hodge's Theorem

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Hodge's Theorem." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HodgesTheorem.html

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