[Alta-Logic] Peripatetic Seminar Monday 9 13:30-15:00 in MS427

[Matthew Burke]

Speaker: Ben MacAdam

Time and Location: 13:30-15:00 Monday 9 Apr in MS 427

Title: Cartan’s calculus for Sector Forms

Abstract: Cartan’s calculus of differential forms refers to a collection
of operators on differential forms - the exterior derivative, Lie
derivative, and interior product - and identities that they satisfy. The
calculus of forms is particularly useful in mechanics. In this talk, we
show that Cartan’s calculus of forms may be formulated in terms of
J.E. White’s sector forms. Definitions for an interior product and Lie
Derivative of sector forms will be presented, it will be shown these
satisfy the usual identities from Cartan’s calculus.

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