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Re:Differential Forms and Integration (2008) [pdf] by JadeNB on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:50AM (#23273361)
> This list includes all particular cases of vector fields and differential forms of all orders on R^3 and on its sub-manifolds.

I think that first 'all' shouldn't be there, right? That is, these are all possible orders of vector fields and differential forms (among which the various Hodge dualities permit lots of identifications) on submanifolds of ℝ^n, but they're not all the possible particular cases of such vector fields and differential forms, in the sense that there are plenty of other, different physical situations that lead to the same mathematics (which, as you argue, is why the concept is so useful).

Re:Differential Forms and Integration (2008) [pdf] by enriquto on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:58AM (#23273456)
I meant all in terms of mathematical models. I think I did not forget any case. In R^3 you have p-forms for p=0,1,2,3 and vector fields; those are respectively cases (1), (5), (8), (2), (4) above. Of course each "case" may have several different physical interpretations that are modeled by the same mathematical object.