“…While lately one can observe several approaches to create a discrete function theory in higher dimensions based on lattice discretizations of the Dirac operator (see [32,26,21,18,19,4,8]) they are closer in spirit to finite difference methods than finite element methods ( [5,22,23,2,6]). Nevertheless, these approaches lead to a well established function theory [17,9,10,11,12,20,7]. For a function theory in connection with the above mentioned finite element exterior calculus we do not want to be restricted to meshes coming from simplicial complexes.…”