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In a manifold V, a current T is said to be closed if bT=0. It is said to be homologous to zero if there exists a current S such that T = bS; in this case, we also say that T bounds S. Two currents are said to be homologous if their difference is homologous to zero1.
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de Rham, G. (1984). Homologies. In: Differentiable Manifolds. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61752-2_5
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