Compositum
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
of field extensions
The smallest subextension 
of an extension 
of a field 
containing two given subextensions 
and 
. It is the same as the image of the homomorphism 
that maps the tensor product 
to 
.
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Compositum. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Compositum&oldid=11305
Compositum. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Compositum&oldid=11305