Schemes 46: Differential operators
Channel: Richard E Borcherds
Date: 2020-08-14

This lecture is part of an online algebraic geometry course on schemes, based on chapter II of "Algebraic geometry" by Hartshorne.

In this lecture we define differential operators on rings, and calculate the universal (normalized) differential operator of order n. As a special case we find the universal first order normalized differential operator, mapping to the module of differentials.