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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeMay 30th 2011

I moving the following old discussion from dg-algebra to here:

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A previous version of this entry gave rise to the following discussion

+–{.query} Zoran, why would you not say that this is ’following the product rule from ordinary calculus’, as I wrote? Not that this can be proved like the product rule can, but it's an easy mnemonic (and a similar one works for direct sums too). —Toby

I find it very confusing for me at least. The Leibniz rule is about the coproduct in a single algebra; here one has several algebras with different differentials, not a single derivative operators, and not acting on a tensor square of a single algebra, so it is a bit far. If $A=B$ then I would be happy, but otherwise it is too general. —Zoran

You mean that if $A = B$, then the Leibniz rule is a special case of this? Then surely it is also a special case of the more general case without $A = B$? Anyway, I think that it's more an example of categorification than generalisation. —Toby

For some special algebras this is true. For example, the dual of symmetric algebra as a Hopf algebra can be identified with the infinite order formal differential operators with constant coefficients (the isomorphism is given by evaluation at zero). Thus the Leibniz rule for derivatives is indeed the dual coproduct to the product on the symmetric algebras. There are braided etc. generalizations to this, and a version for computing the coproduct on a dual of enveloping algebras. In physics the addition of momenta and angular momenta for multiparticle systems is exactly coming from this kind of coproduct. But in all these cases the operators whose product you are taking live in a representation of a single algebra. — Zoran

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• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorjim_stasheff
• CommentTimeMay 31st 2011
I'm used to `THE Leibniz rule' as to e.g. d(fg) = (df)g \pm fdg
where the \pm follows the Koszul convention in the graded context
what other Leibniz rule is meant here?
• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorzskoda
• CommentTimeMay 31st 2011
• (edited May 31st 2011)

For example, see my article arxiv/0711.0149 and

• Max Karoubi, M. Suarez-Alvarez, Twisted Kähler differential forms, JPAA 181, Issues 2-3 (2003), 279-289, MR2004m:55009, doi

• M. Karoubi, Braiding of differential forms and homotopy types, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I 331 (2000), pp. 757–762, MR2001j:55010, doi