C.M.S. • Fredericton, NB • June 2010
Meditations on Arens Multiplication
F.E.J. Linton • Wesleyan Univ. Math/CS Emeritus
We fix a dualizing object C and write A* = CA. The intent:
maps <X, Y, ..., Z> → A* = CA
should amount to maps
<X, Y, ..., Z, A> → C.
In particular, there is evA: <A*,
A> → C
corresponding to idA*: A* → A* .
From Ai ,
μ: <A1, ..., An> → A0, Arens’s
μ‡:
<(A1)**, ..., (An)**>
→ (A0)**
is the last of n+1 2-step †-stages: