Timeline for Tensor power- Notation question
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| Jun 28, 2011 at 13:43 | comment | added | David White | I retagged this question because a discussion on meta suggested they wanted to get rid of the generic "algebra" tag: tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1071/… | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 13:38 | history | edited | David White |
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| May 19, 2011 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | (The reason one prefers the notation $M^{\otimes -n}$ to $(M^*)^{\otimes n}$ is, first and most importantly, that it is considerably less cumbersome, but it also allows you to write things like $\bigoplus_{n\in\mathbb Z}M^{\otimes n}$ which would otherwise need notational circumlocutions.) | |
| May 19, 2011 at 13:31 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | That notation is usually used to mean your first option when the module is invertible. The only way to know what the author of those papers meant is to actually tell us what papers you are reading, though. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 13:05 | history | asked | M.B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |