The flat chain conjecture for metric currents
The flat chain conjecture for metric currents
Let , let be a metric space, and let denote the space of metric -currents on . Normal -currents are metric -currents whose mass and boundary mass are finite, and the flat norm is the metric induced by flat decompositions. Flat chain conjecture. Every -current on a metric space can be approximated by normal -currents under the flat norm, namely
This conjecture asks whether metric currents are flat limits of normal currents. It is known in Euclidean space for and , and Schioppa proved the corresponding metric statement for normal -currents in quasiconvex spaces satisfying a finite-dimensionality assumption; the general metric version remains open.
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David Bate, Emanuele Caputo, Jakub Takáč, Phoebe Valentine and Pietro Wald, “Structure of Metric 1-currents: approximation by normal currents and representation results”, arXiv:2508.08017 (2025).
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