The Stacks project

Definition 87.4.7. Let $R$ be a topological ring. Let $M$ and $N$ be linearly topologized $R$-modules. The tensor product of $M$ and $N$ is the (usual) tensor product $M \otimes _ R N$ endowed with the linear topology defined by declaring

\[ \mathop{\mathrm{Im}}(M_\mu \otimes _ R N + M \otimes _ R N_\nu \longrightarrow M \otimes _ R N) \]

to be a fundamental system of open submodules, where $M_\mu \subset M$ and $N_\nu \subset N$ run through fundamental systems of open submodules in $M$ and $N$. The completed tensor product

\[ M \widehat{\otimes }_ R N = \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits M \otimes _ R N/(M_\mu \otimes _ R N + M \otimes _ R N_\nu ) = \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits M/M_\mu \otimes _ R N/N_\nu \]

is the completion of the tensor product.

Comments (2)

Comment #4905 by MABUD ALI SARKAR on

In the definition completed tensor product, what does the limit "lim" mean? Is it the inverse limit? Thanking you,

Comment #4906 by on

Yes, in the stacks project we use for the limit as in Section 4.14 and we use for the colimit.

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