C.M.S. • Fredericton, NB • June 2010
Meditations on Arens Multiplication
F.E.J. Linton • Wesleyan Univ. Math/CS Emeritus
In a monoidal setting, there’s a ⊗‡:
<X**, Y**, ..., Z**> →
(X ⊗ Y ⊗ ... ⊗ Z)**
arising from the universal multilinear ⊗:
< X, Y, ..., Z> →
X ⊗ Y ⊗ ... ⊗ Z