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Flat torus harmonic forms are constant-coefficient forms
Example
Assume the Axiom of Choice, and an integer , with when . On with its flat metric, the forms , , form a basis of . Every real de Rham class therefore has a unique constant-coefficient representative, and .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: full AC, , an integer and the flat torus.
The compact Hodge theorem supplies a unique harmonic representative of each de Rham class (Harmonic representatives for compact de Rham and Dolbeault complexes).
The quotient is a boundaryless smooth manifold, and is a surjective local isometry with . Its quotient charts have locally translational transition maps (Flat torus model geometry, Proof, quotient-chart and metric construction). Smooth -forms are exterior-bundle sections (A smooth differential -form), and is the contraction of Interior product of a form by a vector field.
The cube is compact (Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line, assertion 1). For continuous functions on a cube, iterated Riemann integrals equal the multiple integral, and integrating a continuous derivative gives its endpoint difference (A continuous function on a closed rectangle has repeated Riemann integrals in every coordinate order, all equal to its multiple integral, Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on , differentiability on , and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative).
Verification
Each class has a representative in , by subtracting the integer parts of its coordinates. Thus ; pulling an open cover back to this compact cube and projecting a finite subcover proves compactness. The local coframes agree across the translational changes of [F2], so they descend to a global orthonormal coframe, and its dual vector fields are the descended . For a form , its pullback is invariant under integer translations because ; therefore its coefficients in this coframe are smooth periodic functions.
Write in that coframe. The coordinate formula and [F1] give . Integrating each coefficient derivative over by [F3] cancels opposite-face terms by periodicity, so the formal adjoint identity gives . Here the density integral equals the cube integral: subdivide the cube into finitely many small boxes lying in quotient charts and use their Euclidean density; the shared faces have zero Riemann content. The wedge/contraction identity proved in [F1], , now gives . One more integration by parts using [F3] gives .
If is harmonic, the sum of nonnegative integrals in step 2.1 is zero. Each derivative is continuous, so a nonzero value would give a neighbourhood with positive integral; hence every vanishes everywhere. Integration along line segments in gives constant coefficients. Conversely constant coefficients give by step 2.1. The increasing wedge basis has members, and [F1] identifies this harmonic space with de Rham cohomology, proving the asserted representative and dimension claims.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- Harmonic representatives for compact de Rham and Dolbeault complexes
- Flat torus model geometry
- A smooth differential $k$-form
- Interior product of a form by a vector field
- Heine-Borel in $\mathbb{R}^n$: with the Euclidean metric a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line
- A continuous function on a closed rectangle has repeated Riemann integrals in every coordinate order, all equal to its multiple integral
- Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on $[a,b]$, differentiability on $(a,b)$, and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative
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