Bimodule

Bimodule

In abstract algebra a bimodule is an abelian group that is both a left and a right module, such that the left and right multiplications are compatible. Besides appearing naturally in many parts of mathematics, bimodules play a clarifying role, in the sense that many of the relationships between left and right modules become simpler when they are expressed in terms of bimodules.

Definition

If "R" and "S" are two rings, then an "R"-"S"-bimodule is an abelian group "M" such that:
# "M" is a left "R"-module and a right "S"-module.
# For all "r" in "R", "s" in "S" and "m" in "M"::: ("rm")"s" = "r"("ms").

An "R"-"R"-bimodule is also known as an "R"-bimodule.

Examples

* For positive integers "n" and "m", the set "M""n","m"(R) of "n" × "m" matrices of real numbers is an "R"-"S" bimodule, where "R" is the ring "M""n"(R) of "n" × "n" matrices, and "S" is the ring "M""m"(R) of "m" × "m" matrices. Addition and multiplication are carried out using the usual rules of matrix addition and matrix multiplication; the heights and widths of the matrices have been chosen so that multiplication is defined. Note that "M""n","m"(R) itself is not a ring (unless "n" = "m"), because multiplying an "n" × "m" matrix by another "n" × "m" matrix is not defined. The crucial bimodule property, that ("r" "x")"s" = "r"("x" "s"), is the statement that multiplication of matrices is associative.
* If "R" is a ring, then "R" itself is an "R"-bimodule, and so is "R""n" (the "n"-fold direct product of "R").
* Any two-sided ideal of a ring "R" is an "R"-bimodule.
* Any module over a commutative ring "R" is automatically a bimodule. For example, if "M" is a left module, we can define multiplication on the right to be the same as multiplication on the left. (However, not all "R"-bimodules arise this way.)
* If "M" is a left "R"-module, then "M" is an "R"-Z bimodule, where Z is the ring of integers. Similarly, right "R"-modules may be interpreted as Z-"R" bimodules, and indeed an abelian group may be treated as a Z-Z bimodule.
* If "R" is a subring of "S", then "S" is an "R"-bimodule. It is also an "R"-"S" and an "S"-"R" bimodule.

Further notions and facts

If "M" and "N" are "R"-"S" bimodules, then a map "f" : "M" → "N" is a "bimodule homomorphism" if it is both a homomorphism of left "R"-modules and of right "S"-modules.

An "R"-"S" bimodule is actually the same thing as a left module over the ring R otimes_mathbb{Z} S^{op}, where "S"op is the "opposite" ring of "S" (with the multiplication turned around). Bimodule homomorphisms are the same as homomorphisms of left R otimes_mathbb{Z} S^{op} modules. Using these facts, many definitions and statements about modules can be immediately translated into definitions and statements about bimodules. For example, the category of all "R"-"S" bimodules is abelian, and the standard isomorphism theorems are valid for bimodules. There are however some new effects in the world of bimodules, especially when it comes to the tensor product: if "M" is an "R"-"S" bimodule and "N" is an "S"-"T" bimodule, then the tensor product of "M" and "N" (taken over the ring "S") is an "R"-"T" bimodule in a natural fashion. This tensor product of bimodules is associative (up to a unique canonical isomorphism), and one can hence construct a category whose objects are the rings and whose morphisms are the bimodules.Furthermore, if "M" is an "R"-"S" bimodule and "L" is an "T"-"S" bimodule, then the set Hom"S"("M","L") of all "S"-module homomorphisms from "M" to "L" becomes a "T"-"R" module in a natural fashion. These statements extend to the derived functors Ext and Tor.

Profunctors can be seen as a categorical generalization of bimodules.

Note that bimodules are not at all related to bialgebras.

See also

* profunctor

References

* p133–136, cite book | author=Jacobson, N. | authorlink=Nathan Jacobson| title=Basic Algebra II | publisher=W. H. Freeman and Company | year=1989 | id=ISBN 0-7167-1933-9


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