agreed, when you start needing the the hodge star, diff form loose quite a lot of their interest. i'd add it's quite nice in string theories for RR fields and

agreed, when you start needing the the hodge star, diff form loose quite a lot of their interest. i'd add it's quite nice in string theories for RR fields and coupling to D-branes, where writing 10 anti-symmetrized indices quickly gets annoying.. and topological field theories..