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To start things off we define in this section the de Rham cohomology and compute a few examples. This will turn out to be the most important diffeomorphism invariant of a manifold. So let x l,..., x n be the linear coordinates on ℝn.
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Bott, R., Tu, L.W. (1982). de Rham Theory. In: Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 82. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3951-0_2
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