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skew-commutative algebra

A skew-commutative algebra is a graded algebra A (with the product often written as ) such that

  • xy=(1) pqyx whenever x is in grade p and y is in grade q.

Actually, there is a twisted tensor product on the category GrMod of graded modules such that a skew-commutative algebra is really a commutative algebra (that is an abelian monoid object) in GrMod, but I forget how that goes.

Created on July 29, 2009 21:50:06 by Toby Bartels (71.104.230.172)