Operations on structures | Bilinear maps | Operations on vectors
In mathematics, the tensor product of two vector spaces V and W (over the same field) is a vector space to which is associated a bilinear map that maps a pair to an element of denoted An element of the form is called the tensor product of v and w. An element of is a tensor, and the tensor product of two vectors is sometimes called an elementary tensor or a decomposable tensor. The elementary tensors span in the sense that every element of is a sum of elementary tensors. If bases are given for V and W, a basis of is formed by all tensor products of a basis element of V and a basis element of W. The tensor product of two vector spaces captures the properties of all bilinear maps in the sense that a bilinear map from into another vector space Z factors uniquely through a linear map (see Universal property). Tensor products are used in many application areas, including physics and engineering. For example, in general relativity, the gravitational field is described through the metric tensor, which is a vector field of tensors, one at each point of the space-time manifold, and each belonging to the tensor product with itself of the cotangent space at the point. (Wikipedia).
A Concrete Introduction to Tensor Products
The tensor product of vector spaces (or modules over a ring) can be difficult to understand at first because it's not obvious how calculations can be done with the elements of a tensor product. In this video we give an explanation of an explicit construction of the tensor product and work
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Lecture 27. Properties of tensor products
0:00 Use properties of tensor products to effectively think about them! 0:50 Tensor product is symmetric 1:17 Tensor product is associative 1:42 Tensor product is additive 21:40 Corollaries 24:03 Generators in a tensor product 25:30 Tensor product of f.g. modules is itself f.g. 32:05 Tenso
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What is a Tensor 5: Tensor Products
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Proof: Uniqueness of the Tensor Product
Universal property introduction: https://youtu.be/vZzZhdLC_YQ This video proves the uniqueness of the tensor product of vector spaces (or modules over a commutative ring). This uses the universal property of the tensor product to prove the existence of an isomorphism (linear bijection) be
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Complete Derivation: Universal Property of the Tensor Product
Previous tensor product video: https://youtu.be/KnSZBjnd_74 The universal property of the tensor product is one of the most important tools for handling tensor products. It gives us a way to define functions on the tensor product using bilinear maps. However, the statement of the universa
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What is a Tensor 6: Tensor Product Spaces
What is a Tensor 6: Tensor Product Spaces There is an error at 15:00 which is annotated but annotations can not be seen on mobile devices. It is a somewhat obvious error! Can you spot it? :)
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What is a Tensor? Lesson 29: Transformations of tensors and p-forms (part review)
What is a Tensor? Lesson 29: Tensor and N-form Transformations This long lesson begins with a review of tensor product spaces and the relationship between coordinate transformations on spacetime and basis transformations of tensor fields. Then we do a full example to introduce the idea th
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Calculus 3: Tensors (1 of 28) What is a Tensor?
Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! In this video I will explain what is a tensor. A tensor is a mathematical representation of a scalar (tensor of rank 0), a vector (tensor of rank 1), a dyad (tensor of rank 2), a triad (tensor or rank 3). Next video in t
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What Is A Tensor Lesson #1: Elementary vector spaces
We define a vector space and lay the foundation of a solid understanding of tensors.
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Anthony Nouy: Approximation and learning with tree tensor networks - Lecture 1
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What is a Tensor? Lesson 12 (redux): Contraction and index gymnastics
What is a Tensor? Lesson 12 (redux): Contraction and index gymnastics I have redone the index gymnastics lecture to try and fill in the details regarding contractions. I will keep them both in the playlist for now.
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Rings 11 Tensor products of modules
This lecture is part of an online course on rings and modules. We define tensor prducts of modules over more general rings, and give some examples: coproducts of commutative rings, tensors in differential geometry, tensor products of group representations, and tensor products of fields.
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[Lesson 11] QED Prerequisites - Tensor Product Spaces
We take a detour from the Angular Momentum Mind Map to cover the important topic of Tensor Product spaces in the Dirac Formalism. In quantum mechanics, the notion of tensors is hidden under the hood of the formalism and this lesson opens that hood. The goal is to make us confident that we
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Commutative algebra 20 Tensor products review
This lecture is part of an online course on commutative algebra, following the book "Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry" by David Eisenbud. In this lecture we review the definition of the tensor product of R-modules. We calculate the tensor products in the cases of
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