Compositum
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
of field extensions
The smallest subextension of an extension of a field containing two given subextensions and . It is the same as the image of the homomorphism that maps the tensor product to .
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Compositum. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Compositum&oldid=11305
Compositum. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Compositum&oldid=11305