Simplicial differential calculus, divided differences, and construction of Weil functors

DOI10.1515/FORM.2011.105MaRDI QIDQ4906547zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Bertram

Publication date 28 February 2013

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2354

zbMATH Keywords

differential calculusdivided differencesTaylor expansionWeil functorscalar extensionjet functor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Differential algebra (13N99) Extension theory of commutative rings (13B02) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Natural bundles (58A32) Infinitesimal methods in algebraic geometry (14B10)

Abstract: We define a simplicial differential calculus by generalizing divided differences from the case of curves to the case of general maps, defined on general topological vector spaces, or even on modules over a topological ring K. This calculus has the advantage that the number of evaluation points growths linearly with the degree, and not exponentially as in the classical, "cubic" approach. In particular, it is better adapted to the case of positive characteristic, where it permits to define Weil functors corresponding to scalar extension from K to truncated polynomial rings K[X]/(X^{k+1}).

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