Exterior algebra Λ(V)

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the abstract-algebra subtree

The quotient T(V)/⟨v⊗v⟩ of the tensor algebra; the universal associative algebra in which v² = 0. Graded components Λ^k V encode k-dimensional oriented parallelepipeds; basis of differential forms.

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