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False: top-form integration needs no orientation

Statement

False assertion: a smooth compactly supported top form has a canonical signed integral independent of any orientation choice.

Facts & Assumptions

[F1]

Orientation reversal changes the integral sign: Let M have the opposite orientation on every component of an oriented smooth manifold M. For every compactly supported top form, Mω=Mω, in all dimensions.

[F2]

Chart integral with its orientation sign: Let Mn be oriented and ω a smooth top form with compact support contained in a connected chart (U,ϕ). For n1 write (ϕ1)ω=fdx1dxn. Let σϕ{1,1} be the sign of its coordinate frame relative to the chosen orientation. Define the chart integral by Iϕ(ω)=σϕRnf~(x)dx. Here f~ 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 n=0, a connected chart is a point p, and set Ip(ω)=ε(p)ω(p) using its determinant-line sign. Empty support gives zero. Negative charts are allowed: the upper-half-line chart u=bt at the right endpoint of an increasing interval has sign 1.

Refutation

Given: The proposed assertion; use the data constructed below.

1.1

Take M=[0,1] and ω=dt, which is smooth with compact support on this compact manifold. In the increasing orientation its integral is the ordinary interval integral 011dt=1. One may compute using a finite chart partition; its coefficients sum to one.

F2algebra
2.1

Reverse the orientation. Its integral becomes 1, which differs from 1. The same nonzero form thus has opposite signed integrals under the two choices, refuting independence.

F1step 1.1

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