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Torsors as proportion spaces

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A torsor (or principal homogeneous space) is, informally speaking, a mathematical structure quite similar to a group, but without a natural identity element. More formally, if is a group, a -torsor is a set on which acts simply and transitively, i.e., for every , there is a unique such that . Torsors are ubiquitous in […]

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