nLab complexification

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For VV a vector space over the real numbers or some other \mathbb{R}-module, its complexification is the tensor product over \mathbb{R} with the complex numbers \mathbb{C}: the extension of scalars along the canonical inclusion \mathbb{R} \hookrightarrow \mathbb{C}.

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