Kähler differentials

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Definition

Let be an algebra. An A differential of B into an -module is a map D:B\to M such that

  1. for all
  2. for

Observe that the set of all such maps is a -module. Moreover, is a representable functor; we call the representative the module of Kähler differentials. That is, satisfies the following universal property: