Fractional Currents and Young Geometric Integration

A. We introduce a class of flat currents with fractal properties, called fractional currents, which satisfy a compactness theorem and remain stable under pushforwards by Hlder continuous maps.In top dimension, fractional currents are the currents represented by functions belonging to a fractional Sobolev space.The space of -fractional currents is in duality with a class of cochains, -fractional charges, that extend both Whitney's flat cochains and -Hlder continuous forms.We construct a partially defined wedge product between fractional charges, enabling a generalization of the Young integral to arbitrary dimensions and codimensions.This helps us identify -fractional -currents as metric currents of the snowflaked metric space (R , d ( + ) /( +1) Eucl).

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ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE
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2026-04-07
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https://doi.org/10.2422/2036-2145.202503_012
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Mathematical functions and polynomials
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Fractional Currents and Young Geometric Integration

Philippe Bouafia
ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE
Mathematical functions and polynomials
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Fractional Currents and Young Geometric Integration

Philippe Bouafia
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Abstract

A. We introduce a class of flat currents with fractal properties, called fractional currents, which satisfy a compactness theorem and remain stable under pushforwards by Hlder continuous maps.In top dimension, fractional currents are the currents represented by functions belonging to a fractional Sobolev space.The space of -fractional currents is in duality with a class of cochains, -fractional charges, that extend both Whitney's flat cochains and -Hlder continuous forms.We construct a partially defined wedge product between fractional charges, enabling a generalization of the Young integral to arbitrary dimensions and codimensions.This helps us identify -fractional -currents as metric currents of the snowflaked metric space (R , d ( + ) /( +1) Eucl).

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Mathematical functions and polynomials
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