Cartan’s magic formula
On a smooth manifold, for any smooth vector field and a differential form , Where denotes the Lie derivative of with respect to , and denotes the interior product.
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On a smooth manifoldM, for any smooth vector field X∈X(M) and a differential form α, LXα=dιXα+ιXdα Where LXα denotes the Lie derivative of α with respect to X, and ιX denotes the interior product.