In recent years, some progress has been made in the development of finite element complexes, particularly in the discretization of BGG complexes in two and three dimensions, including Hessian complexes, elasticity complexes, and divdiv complexes. In this talk, I will discuss distributional complexes in two and three dimensions. These complexes are simply constructed using geometric concepts such as vertices, edges, and faces, and they share the same cohomology as the complexes at the continuous level, which reflects that the discretization is structure preserving. The results can be regarded as a tensor generalization of the Whitney forms of the finite element exterior calculus. This talk is based on joint work with Snorre Christiansen (Oslo), Kaibo Hu (Edinburgh), and Qian Zhang (Michigan).
