nLab compactly supported cohomology

Contents

Context

Cohomology

cohomology

Special and general types

Special notions

Variants

Extra structure

Operations

Theorems

Contents

Idea

In compactly supported cohomology cocycles and coboundaries on some space are required to have compact support: to be non-trivial only over a compact subspace/compact subobject of the base.

References

General

Compactly supported de Rham cohomology

Discussion of compactly supported de Rham cohomology includes for instance the following.

A standard textbook account is in

A brief account is also in section 11 of

  • Patrick Hafkenscheid, De Rham Cohomology of smooth manifolds (pdf)

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