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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 a commutative ring, a -algebra, an -bimodule (equivalently a right module over the enveloping algebra of ), and I want to tensor the bar resolution of by over the enveloping algebra of . 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 , 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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