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Extended integral in Spivak’s Calculus on Manifolds

On page 48 of Calculus on Manifolds Spivak defines (Riemann) integration over rectangles $[a_{1},b_{1}]\times\cdots\times[a_{n},b_{n}]\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Then on page 55 he extends this integral ...
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Good introduction to Morse-Novikov theory?

Morse theory investigates the topology of compact manifolds using critical points of real-valued functions $f\colon\, M\to \mathbb{R}$. Motivated by problems in dynamical systems, Novikov (Multivalued ...
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On a remark in Foundations of mechanics, 2nd Edition, by Abraham and Marsden

I don't know if this question is appropriate to this site, but I posted here without an answer, so I tried this alternative. Given a $2$-form $\omega$ on a manifold $M$, let us denote by $N$ the ...
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