Notation for the Dual of a Vector Space

samedi 28 juin 2014

I've been reading about algebraic geometry lately. I see that a lot of authors use ##V^\vee## to denote the dual space of a vector space ##V##. Is there any particular reason for this?



The only reason I could think of is that this notation leaves us free to use ##R^*## to denote the units of ##R##. However, this still doesn't make sense of the reasoning behind the notation.



Thank you!





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