Averaging closed one-forms on a surface unit tangent bundle

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Average a closed one-form over fibre rotations. The average differs from the original by an exact form because each rotation is isotopic to the identity; the Cartan formula for the Lie derivative supplies an explicit homotopy integral. Its vertical value is constant, since closedness and rotational invariance give . Subtracting leaves a basic form , and closedness gives . For a zero-flux magnetic field, the Liouville mean of is zero: the directional mean of vanishes, the vertical mean is , and the coboundary has zero mean by volume preservation.

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