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=== Multiplication === Multiplication is given by an operator :<math>\nabla: TV\boxtimes TV\to TV</math> which, in this case, was already given as the "internal" tensor product. That is, :<math>\nabla: x\boxtimes y\mapsto x \otimes y</math> That is, <math>\nabla(x\boxtimes y) = x \otimes y.</math> The above should make it clear why the <math>\boxtimes</math> symbol needs to be used: the <math>\otimes</math> was actually one and the same thing as <math>\nabla</math>; and notational sloppiness here would lead to utter chaos. To strengthen this: the tensor product <math>\otimes</math> of the tensor algebra corresponds to the multiplication <math>\nabla</math> used in the definition of an algebra, whereas the tensor product <math>\boxtimes</math> is the one required in the definition of comultiplication in a coalgebra. These two tensor products are ''not'' the same thing!
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