Algebraic tensor products revisited: axiomatic approach

DOI10.1007/S40840-020-01060-0MaRDI QIDQ2045262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 12 August 2021

Published in Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06515

bilinear maps quotient spaces tensor product

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis (46-02) Tensor products in functional analysis (46M05) Tensor products of linear operators (47A80)

Abstract: This is an expository paper on tensor products where the standard approaches for constructing concrete instances of algebraic tensor products of linear spaces, via quotient spaces or via linear maps of bilinear maps, are reviewed by reducing them to different but isomorphic interpretations of an abstract notion, viz., the universal property, which is based on a pair of axioms.

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Taking the so-called `universal property' as the axiomatic starting point, this article offers a brief survey on the algebraic theory of tensor products of linear spaces. Recall that one of the many possibilities to define algebraic tensor products is as follows: Given two linear spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) (over the field \(\mathbb{F}\)), a pair \((T,\psi)\), where \(T\) is a linear space (over \(\mathbb{F}\)) and \(\psi: X \times Y \to T\) a bilinear mapping, is said to be a tensor product of \(X\) and \(Y\), whenever for each bilinear mapping \(\varphi:X \times Y \to E\) there is a unique linear mapping \(u: T \to E \) such that \(\varphi(x,y) = u \big(\psi(x,y)\big)\) for all \(x \in X\) and \(y \in Y\). Such objects exist, are (in a certain sense) unique, and usually denoted by \(X\otimes Y\). The content of this article is absolutely standard, and (in one way or the other) presented in many standard textbooks.

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