Chapter 1
Differential Forms in 
, I
Abstract
In this chapter we consider differential forms as formal objects in 
. We show how to do algebra with differential forms, this algebra being known as exterior algebra, and we introduce the operation of exterior differentiation. We state and prove Poincaré’s Lemma. Focusing on 
, we show how, in , differential ...
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