Chard, Jeffrey A.; Shapiro, Vadim - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 54 (2000) 1, pp. 33-64
We use tools from algebraic topology to show that a class of structural differential equations may be represented combinatorially, and thus, by a computer data structure. In particular, every differential k-form may be represented by a formal k-cochain over a cellular structure that we call a...