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The formal apparatus of the algebra of differential forms appears as a rather special amalgam of multilinear and homological algebra, which has not been satisfactorily absorbed in the general theory of derived functors. It is our main purpose here to identify the exterior algebra of differential forms as a certain canonical graded algebra based on the Tor functor and to obtain the cohomology of differential forms from the Ext functor of a universal algebra of differential operators similar to the universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra.
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Hochschild, G., Kostant, B., Rosenberg, A. (2009). Differential Forms on Regular Affine Algebras. In: Joseph, A., Kumar, S., Vergne, M. (eds) Collected Papers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b94535_14
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