Jenny Harrison

Differential complexes and exterior calculus (2006)

Harrison, Jenny

In this paper we present a new theory of calculus over $k$-dimensional domains in a smooth $n$-manifold, unifying the discrete, exterior, and continuum theories. The calculus begins at a single point...

Lectures on chainlet geometry - new topological methods in geometric measure theory (2005)

Harrison, Jenny

These draft notes are from a graduate course given by the author in Berkeley during the spring semester of 2005. They cover the basic ideas of a new, geometric approach to geometric measure theory....

Ravello lecture notes on geometric calculus -- Part I (2004)

Harrison, Jenny

In these notes of lectures at the 2004 Summer School of Mathematical Physics in Ravello, Italy, the author develops an approach to calculus in which more efficient choices of limits are taken at key...

Geometric Hodge Star Operator with Applications to the Theorems of Gauss and Green (2004)

Harrison, Jenny

The classical divergence theorem for an $n$-dimensional domain $A$ and a smooth vector field $F$ in $n$-space $$\int_{\partial A} F \cdot n = \int_A div F$$ requires that a normal vector field $n(p)$...

On Plateau's Problem for Soap Films with a Bound on Energy (2004)

Harrison, Jenny

We prove existence and a.e. regularity of an area minimizing soap film with a bound on energy spanning a given Jordan curve in R^3. The energy of a film is defined to be the sum of its surface area...

Cartan's Magic Formula and Soap Film Structures (2004)

Harrison, Jenny

A soap film is actually a thin solid fluid bounded by two surfaces of opposite orientation. It is natural to model the film using one polyhedron for each side. Two problems are to get the polyhedra...

Stokes' theorem for nonsmooth chains (1993)

Harrison, Jenny

Much of the vast literature on the integral during the last two centuries concerns extending the class of integrable functions. In contrast, our viewpoint is akin to that taken by Hassler Whitney...