ANOTHER COBOUNDARY OPERATOR FOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS WITH VALUES IN THE LIE ALGEBRA OF A GROUP  A CHAPTER IN SYNTHETIC DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY OF GROUPOIDS

Hirokazu Nishimura (Japan)

Received January 5, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: differential form, synthetic differential geometry, groupoid, coboundary operator, Maurer-Cartan equation.