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numbers). What is quite unclear to me in this definition is, what is Lambda^dot(., ..,)? Lambda (in my world) would be the exterior algebra maybe on a vectorspace fibre bundle. But what is ^dot? The space of all morphisms? Until this is resolved, I think it is quite bold to speak of having a 'definition'. Anybody can help?
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