I'm reading these lecture notes here about the tensor product and the author uses $M^\vee$ where $M$ is an $R$-module. Look at page 2 for an example (example 2.1). What does it mean? I looked through the notes but I couldn't find the definition. Many thanks for your help!
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0It should've said page 2, not page 3. The file has been updated. – 2011-10-13
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$M^{\vee}$ (which in $\LaTeX$ is not a \wedge) is the dual $R$-module; that is, it's the $R$-module of all $R$-module homomorphisms $M \to R$, or more concisely it's $\text{Hom}_R(M, R)$. This is why the author refers to the dual pairing on page 2.
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0Is this a standard notation? I think i have encountered $M^*$ more often. – 2014-06-22