Abstract
Using the duality of metric currents and polylipschitz forms, we show that a BLD-mapping f : X → Y between oriented cohomology manifolds X and Y induces a pull-back operator f* : Mk,loc(Y) → Mk,loc(X) between the spaces of metric k-currents of locally finite mass. For proper maps, the pull-back is a right-inverse (up to multiplicity) of the push-forward f* : Mk,loc(X) → Mk,loc(Y).
As an application we obtain a non-smooth version of the cohomological boundedness theorem of Bonk and Heinonen for locally Lipschitz contractible cohomology n-manifolds X admitting a BLD-mapping ℝn → X.
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