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The goal of this section is to figure out what we mean by the derivative of a differential form. One way to think about a derivative is as a function which measures the variation of some other function. Suppose ω is a 1-form on ℝ2. What do we mean by the “variation” of ω? One thing we can try is to plug in a vector field V.
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Bachman, D. (2012). Differentiation of Differential Forms. In: A Geometric Approach to Differential Forms. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8304-7_5
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