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A noncompactly supported form whose integral diverges
Statement refuted
False assertion: smoothness alone guarantees a finite integral of a top form on an oriented manifold, without a compact-support or convergence condition.
Facts & Assumptions
Chart integral with its orientation sign: Let be oriented and a smooth top form with compact support contained in a connected chart . For write Let be the sign of its coordinate frame relative to the chosen orientation. Define the chart integral by Here is the Riemann-integrable zero extension, including across a genuine half-space face, as in lem-chart-supported-coefficients-have-well-defined-riemann-integrable-half-space-extensions. For , a connected chart is a point , and set using its determinant-line sign. Empty support gives zero. Negative charts are allowed: the upper-half-line chart at the right endpoint of an increasing interval has sign .
Counterexample
Given: The proposed assertion; use the data constructed below.
On the increasingly oriented line the form is smooth, but its support is all of , which is not compact. Its restriction to every compact interval , , has the ordinary integral , computed using chart integration or a finite endpoint chart partition.
The values are unbounded as increases. Hence even the elementary symmetric improper-integral attempt fails to give a finite value. The compact-support integral defined on this page is simply inapplicable to dx on the whole line; the calculation does not introduce a general improper manifold integral.
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Sources
- Lee p.407 paragraph on noncompactly supported forms and convergence (standard reference, not scraped)