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We give a brief treatment of these topics. The crucial concept here is that of a differential k-form on a manifold. But before discussing that, we have to present a bit of exterior algebra.
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Sontz, S.B. (2015). Exterior Algebra and Differential Forms. In: Principal Bundles. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14765-9_5
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