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Main Authors: Franchi, Bruno, Pansu, Pierre
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18895
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author Franchi, Bruno
Pansu, Pierre
author_facet Franchi, Bruno
Pansu, Pierre
contents There are three approaches to currents tuned to the anisotropic geometry of Heisenberg groups: Ambrosio and Kirchheim's approach valid for general metric spaces; distributions dual to horizontal differential forms; distributions dual to Rumin's complex. It is shown that, in dimensions less than half the ambient dimension, these three theories coincide. On the other hand, they diverge beyond middle dimension: Ambrosio-Kirchheim currents vanish, Rumin currents correspond to a new class of Federer-Fleming currents called oblique currents.
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spellingShingle Currents in Heisenberg groups
Franchi, Bruno
Pansu, Pierre
Metric Geometry
There are three approaches to currents tuned to the anisotropic geometry of Heisenberg groups: Ambrosio and Kirchheim's approach valid for general metric spaces; distributions dual to horizontal differential forms; distributions dual to Rumin's complex. It is shown that, in dimensions less than half the ambient dimension, these three theories coincide. On the other hand, they diverge beyond middle dimension: Ambrosio-Kirchheim currents vanish, Rumin currents correspond to a new class of Federer-Fleming currents called oblique currents.
title Currents in Heisenberg groups
topic Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18895