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Stream: Is there code for X?

Topic: tensor product of a complex by module


Sarah El Boustany (Nov 19 2025 at 16:05):

Is there code for the tensor product of a complex by module?

Kevin Buzzard (Nov 19 2025 at 16:14):

Can you be more precise? Is the complex a complex of modules for the same ring? Is the ring commutative? (i.e. is the tensor product also a complex of modules or a complex of abelian groups)? I am only asking these questions because I don't know the answer to your question in any of these situations :-/ but formalization will care.

Sarah El Boustany (Nov 19 2025 at 16:23):

Specifically, I am looking at kk a commutative ring, AA a kk-algebra, MM an AA-bimodule (equivalently a right module over the enveloping algebra of AA), and I want to tensor the bar resolution of AA by MM over the enveloping algebra of AA. So it's a complex for the same ring, but the ring is not necessarily commutative (as far as I understand - I am still pretty new to this field)

Matthew Ballard (Nov 19 2025 at 16:26):

By enveloping in this context you mean AopkAA^{\operatorname{op}} \otimes_k A, is that right?

Sarah El Boustany (Nov 19 2025 at 16:28):

Yes

Matthew Ballard (Nov 19 2025 at 16:35):

@Joël Riou will know best but docs#HomologicalComplex.coinvariantsTensorObj is a good place to start poking around

Sarah El Boustany (Nov 19 2025 at 16:35):

Thank you very much!

Joël Riou (Nov 19 2025 at 16:43):

We have the alternating (co)face map complex of a (co)simplicial object https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib4_docs/Mathlib/AlgebraicTopology/AlternatingFaceMapComplex.html but I do not think we have the simplicial object which sends n to the (n +1) tensor power of the k-algebra A.

Sarah El Boustany (Nov 19 2025 at 16:44):

Thank you, I will look into this tomorrow!


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