English

On Sweedler's cofree cocommutative coalgebra

Rings and Algebras 2017-01-05 v2

Abstract

We give a direct proof of a result of Sweedler describing the cofree cocommutative coalgebra over a vector space, and use our approach to give an explicit construction of liftings of maps into this universal coalgebra. The basic ingredients in our approach are local cohomology and residues.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5749,
  title  = {On Sweedler's cofree cocommutative coalgebra},
  author = {Daniel Murfet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5749},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v2: improved some notation and fixed typos. Published in J. Pure and Applied Algebra

R2 v1 2026-06-22T04:44:21.974Z