Fiber Bundles and Regular Approximation of Codimension-One Cycles

Abstract

We derive an approximation of codimension-one integral cycles(and cycles modulo p) in a compact Riemannian manifold bymeans of piecewise regular cycles: we obtain both flat convergence andconvergence of the masses. The theorem is proved by using suitableprincipal bundles with a discrete group. As a byproduct, we give analternative proof of the main results, which does not use the regularitytheory for homology minimizers in a Riemannian manifold. This also givesa result of Γ-convergence.