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In mathematics, the interior product (also known as interior derivative, interior multiplication, inner multiplication, inner derivative, insertion operator, or inner derivation) is a degree −1 (anti)derivation on the exterior algebra of differential forms on a smooth manifold.
with the derivative evaluated at = Another connexion with the confluent hypergeometric functions is that E 1 is an exponential times the function U(1,1,z): = (,,) The exponential integral is closely related to the logarithmic integral function li(x) by the formula
D X→Y := O X ⊗ f −1 (O Y) f −1 (D Y) This is equipped with a left D X action in a way that emulates the chain rule, and with the natural right action of f −1 (D Y). The pullback is defined as f ∗ (M) := D X→Y ⊗ f −1 (D Y) f −1 (M). Here M is a left D Y-module, while its pullback is a left module over X.
In mathematics, differential algebra is, broadly speaking, the area of mathematics consisting in the study of differential equations and differential operators as algebraic objects in view of deriving properties of differential equations and operators without computing the solutions, similarly as polynomial algebras are used for the study of algebraic varieties, which are solution sets of ...
That is, df is the unique 1-form such that for every smooth vector field X, df (X) = d X f , where d X f is the directional derivative of f in the direction of X. The exterior product of differential forms (denoted with the same symbol ∧ ) is defined as their pointwise exterior product .
On a Riemann surface the Poincaré lemma states that every closed 1-form or 2-form is locally exact. [2] Thus if ω is a smooth 1-form with dω = 0 then in some open neighbourhood of a given point there is a smooth function f such that ω = df in that neighbourhood; and for any smooth 2-form Ω there is a smooth 1-form ω defined in some open neighbourhood of a given point such that Ω = dω ...
In the theory of differential forms, a differential ideal I is an algebraic ideal in the ring of smooth differential forms on a smooth manifold, in other words a graded ideal in the sense of ring theory, that is further closed under exterior differentiation d, meaning that for any form α in I, the exterior derivative dα is also in I.
The term differential is used nonrigorously in calculus to refer to an infinitesimal ("infinitely small") change in some varying quantity. For example, if x is a variable, then a change in the value of x is often denoted Δx (pronounced delta x). The differential dx represents an infinitely small change in the variable x. The idea of an ...