Exterior bundle

Exterior bundle

In mathematics, the exterior bundle of a manifold "M" is the subbundle of the tensor bundle consisting of all antisymmetric covariant tensors. It has special significance, because one can define a connection-independent derivative on it, namely the exterior derivative.

Sections of the exterior bundle are differential forms on "M".


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