Hodge decomposition for the Sobolev space Hl (Λk ) on a space form of nonpositive sectional curvature

Abstract

The Hodge decomposition is well-known for compact manifolds. The result has been extended by Kodaira to non-compact complete manifolds in the space of L 2 forms. This decomposition was done in the Sobolev space H1 (&Lambda;k (Hn (&minus;a 2 ))), in [4], on a space form of constant negative sectional curvature. In this thesis we extend the decomposition to the Sobolev space Hl (&Lambda;k (Hn (&minus;a 2 ))), for integers n &ge; 2, l &ge; 0, n &ge; k &ge; 0. We also prove that this decomposition holds in the strong sense, depending on n and k, the dimension and the degree of the differential form.</p

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