Codifferential

English

Etymology

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Noun

1. Template:Lb The projected differential of an extensor field.
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2. Template:Lb the formal adjoint of the exterior derivative; a differential-geometric version of the divergence operator; the exterior derivative sandwiched between two Hodge star operators with some additional factor(s) that take(s) care of the sign; the Hermitian conjugate of the exterior derivative under the inner product for k-form fields over some manifold M: $(\alpha ,\beta )=\underset{M}{\int }\alpha \wedge \star \beta$, so that $(\alpha ,d\beta )=(\delta \alpha ,\beta )$.
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