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A space-filling source current reduces to the negative internal integration current

Statement

Let $E$ be an oriented smooth four-manifold, let $X$ be a compact oriented smooth six-manifold, and use the product orientation on $E \times X$ with the $E$ factor first. Let $χ \in Ω_{c}^{4} (E)$ have $\int_{E} χ = 1$ , and let $C \subseteq X$ be a compact oriented embedded three-manifold without boundary. Orient $W : = E \times C$ by the same product order.

Write $π_{E} : E \times X \to E$ and $π_{X} : E \times X \to X$ for the projections. For an integer $0 \leq k \leq 6$ and $ζ \in Ω_{c}^{10 - k} (E \times X)$ , define $π_{X *} ζ \in Ω^{6 - k} (X)$ by integration over the oriented $E$ factor, with convention $π_{X *} (π_{E}^{*} β_{4} \land π_{X}^{*} γ) = (\int_{E} β_{4}) γ$ for decomposable terms of external degree four and zero external integral for other external degrees. Equivalently, in oriented product coordinates, retain the terms containing the oriented external volume element and integrate their coefficient functions over $E$ , using a partition of unity in $E$ when needed. Define the external-independent product extension of an internal degree- $k$ current $T$ by $⟨ T^{↑}, ζ ⟩ : = ⟨ T, π_{X *} ζ ⟩ .$ For a smooth internal $k$ -form $α_{k}$ , this convention gives $⟨ (T_{α_{k}})^{↑}, ζ ⟩ = \int_{E \times X} π_{X}^{*} α_{k} \land ζ$ .

The ten-dimensional source-current convention $\int_{E \times X} ζ_{7} \land J_{W} = \int_{W} ι_{W}^{*} ζ_{7}$ for compactly supported test seven-forms $ζ_{7}$ has the following reduction to the mathematical current convention of De Rham currents of compact oriented source cycles: $\int_{E \times X} J_{W} \land (χ \land η_{3}) = - \int_{C} η_{3} = - ⟨ δ_{C}, η_{3} ⟩ .$ For an internal smooth $k$ -form $α_{k}$ and an internal current $T$ of degree $k$ , pairing the product extensions just defined with $χ \land η_{6 - k}$ gives respectively $\int_{X} α_{k} \land η_{6 - k}$ and $⟨ T, η_{6 - k} ⟩$ . For $0 \leq k \leq 5$ , the current differential also reduces on these product tests: the pairing of $d_{10} T^{↑}$ with $χ \land η_{5 - k}$ equals the pairing of $d_{X} T$ with $η_{5 - k}$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The oriented manifolds and product orientation above, the normalized compactly supported top form $χ$ , and the degree-current convention of De Rham currents of compact oriented source cycles.

[F1]

De Rham currents of compact oriented source cycles defines $T_{α_{k}} (η) = \int_{X} α_{k} \land η$ , $⟨ d T, η ⟩ = (- 1)^{k + 1} ⟨ T, d η ⟩$ , and $⟨ δ_{C}, η_{3} ⟩ = \int_{C} η_{3}$ .

[F2]

Fubini over a bounded Jordan set when all but a content-zero family of sections are integrable applies to Riemann-integrable functions on bounded Jordan sets with integrable sections outside a content-zero exceptional set. Below it is applied only to smooth functions, extended by zero, on bounded product rectangles; every section is integrable.

[F3]

The exterior derivative is a graded derivation gives $d (χ \land η) = d χ \land η + (- 1)^{4} χ \land d η$ .

[F4]

For the possibly noncompact oriented manifold $M = E \times X$ of dimension $n = 10$ , use compactly supported tests: let $Ω_{K}^{r} (M)$ be the smooth $r$ -forms supported in a fixed compact $K \subset M$ , with the coordinate coefficient-and-derivative seminorms of [F1]. Give $Ω_{c}^{r} (M) = ⋃_{K} Ω_{K}^{r} (M)$ the finest locally convex topology making every inclusion $Ω_{K}^{r} (M) \to Ω_{c}^{r} (M)$ continuous. A degree- $k$ current is a continuous real-linear functional on $Ω_{c}^{n - k} (M)$ . Define $⟨ d S, ζ ⟩ = (- 1)^{k + 1} ⟨ S, d ζ ⟩$ for tests of degree $n - k - 1$ and put $d S = 0$ in top degree. The coordinate formula for $d$ preserves supports and bounds each output seminorm of order $m$ by finitely many input seminorms of order $m + 1$ ; hence this defines a continuous current. For a smooth $q$ -form $β$ , set $⟨ S \land β, ζ ⟩ = ⟨ S, β \land ζ ⟩$ and $β \land S = (- 1)^{k q} S \land β$ . These definitions agree with [F1] on compact manifolds. They are the compact-test conventions of Dinh–Sibony, §3.1 Definition 3.1.3, §3.2 and §4.4; no noncompact assertion is imported from [F1].

[F5]

Finite chart localization gives choice-free integration and compact Stokes constructs compactly supported top-form integrals using finitely many smooth chart cutoffs summing to one near the support, proves independence of those choices, and applies without compactness of the manifold. This supplies all chart localizations below.

Proof

Given: The product geometry, $\int_{E} χ = 1$ , and the stated test forms.

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For any compactly supported top forms $β$ on $E$ and $γ$ on $N = X$ or $N = C$ , apply [F5] separately to their compact supports. Write the resulting finite chart pieces as $f_{a} (u) d u^{1} \land \dots \land d u^{4}$ and $g_{b} (v) d v^{1} \land \dots \land d v^{\dim N}$ in oriented charts. Their coefficient functions extend smoothly by zero outside their chart images and have compact support. Choose bounded rectangles $A_{a}, B_{b}$ containing these supports. The function $f_{a} (u) g_{b} (v)$ is continuous on the Jordan rectangle $A_{a} \times B_{b}$ , with continuous sections everywhere. Thus [F2] gives $\int f_{a} g_{b} = (\int f_{a}) (\int g_{b})$ . Summing the finite chart pieces and using [F5] proves $\int_{E \times N} π_{E}^{*} β \land π_{N}^{*} γ = (\int_{E} β) (\int_{N} γ)$ with the external-first orientation. In particular, moving $π_{X}^{*} α_{k}$ past $χ$ has sign $(- 1)^{4 k} = 1$ , so $\int_{E \times X} π_{X}^{*} α_{k} \land χ \land π_{X}^{*} η = \int_{X} α_{k} \land η$ . Taking $N = C$ gives $\int_{W} χ \land π_{X}^{*} η = \int_{C} η$ .

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The fibre integral in the Statement is well-defined and continuous on each fixed-support test space of [F4]. Indeed, for tests supported in a compact $K \subset E \times X$ , use [F5] to fix finitely many external cutoffs on $π_{E} (K)$ and internal chart cutoffs on $X$ . The external-degree-four coefficient of each localized piece extends by zero in the external coordinates and is integrated on a fixed bounded rectangle $A$ . In internal coordinates $y$ , differentiation gives $\partial_{y}^{a} \int_{A} f (u, y) d u = \int_{A} \partial_{y}^{a} f (u, y) d u$ : difference quotients converge uniformly on compact coordinate rectangles, by the fundamental theorem of calculus and uniform continuity of the next derivative. Iteration proves smoothness; the bound $∣ \int_{A} \partial_{y}^{a} f d u ∣ \leq vol (A) \sup ∣ \partial_{y}^{a} f ∣$ proves continuity for every output seminorm. Independence of external cutoffs and coordinates follows from [F5] applied at each $y$ ; internal coordinate changes act linearly on the retained internal form coefficients, so these local forms glue. Composition with the continuous internal current $T$ therefore makes $T^{↑}$ a current in [F4]. Applying the same finite-chart Fubini calculation to an arbitrary test $ζ$ gives $\int_{E \times X} π_{X}^{*} α_{k} \land ζ = \int_{X} α_{k} \land π_{X *} ζ$ : only external degree four contributes, and its interchange with $α_{k}$ has sign $1$ . Integration over $W$ also gives a continuous functional on each fixed-support space, since its pullback integral is bounded by finitely many coefficient seminorms on charts of the compact set $W \cap K$ ; here $W$ is closed because $C$ is compact. Thus the source pairing defines a current as well.

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In the mathematical current convention, the associated current of the degree-three source form is evaluated with the form-current order $J_{W} \land (χ \land η)$ . Moving the degree-three current past the degree-seven test form changes sign by $(- 1)^{3 \cdot 7} = - 1$ . The source convention in the Statement therefore gives $\int_{E \times X} J_{W} \land (χ \land η) = - \int_{E \times X} (χ \land η) \land J_{W} = - \int_{W} χ \land η = - \int_{C} η .$ By [F1], the final term is $- ⟨ δ_{C}, η ⟩$ .

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For an internal degree- $k$ current $T$ , the definition above and $\int_{E} χ = 1$ give $π_{X *} (χ \land η) = η$ , hence $⟨ T^{↑}, χ \land η ⟩ = ⟨ T, η ⟩$ . For the differential assertion let $0 \leq k \leq 5$ and $η \in Ω^{5 - k} (X)$ . Since $d χ = 0$ for a top form on the four-manifold and [F3] gives $d (χ \land η) = χ \land d η$ , the compact-test differential [F4] on $E \times X$ and the compact-base differential [F1] on $X$ yield $⟨ d_{10} T^{↑}, χ \land η ⟩ = (- 1)^{k + 1} ⟨ T^{↑}, χ \land d η ⟩ = (- 1)^{k + 1} ⟨ T, d η ⟩ = ⟨ d_{X} T, η ⟩ .$ This proves the reduction of the current differential on the tests needed for a product compactification.

Remarks

The minus sign is forced by the degree-current convention: the source literature writes the localized source by the test-first wedge $ζ_{7} \land J_{W}$ , while De Rham currents of compact oriented source cycles associates smooth forms by $J_{W} \land ζ_{7}$ . A physical source-current postulate in the first convention therefore reduces to $- δ_{C}$ in the second. This is the sign conversion used by the massive IIA tadpole item; it is independent of the regularized source-first intersection sign.

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Sources

Tien-Cuong Dinh and Nessim Sibony, Introduction to the Theory of Currents