Combinatorial Approximation to the Divergence of One-Forms on Surfaces
Author
Lieven Smits
Bibliographical Reference
Israel Journal of Mathematics, volume 75 (1991), pages 257-271.
Abstract
We consider the approximation of a differential operator on forms by
combinatorial objects via the correspondences of Whitney and de Rham.
We prove that the Hilbert space dual of the combinatorial coboundary
is an L2 approximation to the codifferential of one-forms on a
two-dimensional Riemannian manifold.
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