Natural analogs of Lie brackets on affine bundles are studied. In particular, a close relation to Lie algebroids and a duality with certain affine analog of Poisson structure is established as well as affine versions of the complete lift and the Cartan exterior calculus.

Skew-symmetric differential forms play an unique role in mathematics and mathematical physics. This relates to the fact that closed exterior skew-symmetric differential forms are invariants. The concept of “Exterior differential forms” was introduced by E.Cartan for a notation of integrand expressions, which can create the integral invariants. (The existence of integral invariants was recognize...

We provide an overview on the application of the exterior calculus of differential forms to the ab initio formulation of lattice field theories, with a focus on irregular or " random " lattices.

The π-exterior derivative d, which is the Finslerian generalization of the (usual) exterior derivative d of Riemannian geometry, is defined. The notion of a d-closed vector field is introduced and investigated. Various characterizations of d-closed vector fields are established. Some results concerning d-closed vector fields in relation to certain special Finsler spaces are obtained. 1

We construct projections from HΛk(Ω), the space of differential k forms on Ω which belong to L2(Ω) and whose exterior derivative also belongs to L2(Ω), to finite dimensional subspaces of HΛk(Ω) consisting of piecewise polynomial differential forms defined on a simplicial mesh of Ω. Thus, their definition requires less smoothness than assumed for the definition of the canonical interpolants base...