Formulas for Lie derivative, exterior derivative, brackets, interior and wedge products

For the definitions see:
Lie derivative of vector fields
Lie derivative of forms,
Lie derivative for tensors in general,
interior product,
Lie bracket,
exterior derivative,...

In what follows: X,Y vector fields, ω,θ differential forms, not necessarily of the same degree.

  1. dLXω=LX(dω)
  2. LfXω=fLXω+df∧iXω (only 1-forms?)
  3. LX(ω∧θ)=LX(ω)∧θ+ω∧LX(θ) (including functions)
  4. i[X,Y]=[LX,iY] (warning: informal notation). It is the same as equation (1.62) in @olver86: v(w⌟ω)=[v,w]⌟ω+w⌟v(ω). It is related to the following cases:
    1. For a 1-form: LX(iYω)=iYLX(ω)+i[X,Y]ω , and with other notation
    2. LX(⟨ω;Y⟩)=⟨LXω;Y⟩+⟨ω;LXY⟩ or, in general for a k-form,
    3. LX(⟨ω;Y1,…,Yk⟩)=⟨LXω;Y1,…,Yk⟩+⟨ω;LXY1,…,Yk⟩+…. See @olver86 page 74 exercise 1.35.
  5. infinitesimal Stokes' theorem
  6. Cartan formula
  7. LX∘LY−LY∘LX=L[X,Y], valid for k-forms. For vector fields is nothing but Jacobi identity.