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Tensor products of idempotent semimodules. An algebraic approach

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We study idempotent analogs of topological tensor products in the sense of A. Grothendieck. The basic concepts and results are expressed in purely algebraic terms. This is one of a series of papers on idempotent functional analysis.

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Dedicate to S. G. Krein on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Translated fromMatermaticheskie Zametki, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 572–585, April, 1999.

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Litvinov, G.L., Maslov, V.P. & Shpiz, G.B. Tensor products of idempotent semimodules. An algebraic approach. Math Notes 65, 479–489 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675362

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