Sobolev-Poincaré inequalities for differential forms and currents

Abstract

In this note we collect some results in R^n about (p,q) Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities for differential forms obtained in a joint research with Franchi and Pansu. In particular, we focus to the case p=1. From the geometric point of view, Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities for differential forms provide a quantitative formulation of the vanishing of the cohomology. As an application of the results obtained in the case p=1 we obtain Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities for Euclidean currents.

Keywords

• differential forms
• sobolev-poincaré inequalities
• homotopy formula
• currents