Let K {\displaystyle {}K} be a field, let V {\displaystyle {}V} and W {\displaystyle {}W} denote K {\displaystyle {}K} -vector spaces, and let n ∈ N {\displaystyle {}n\in \mathbb {N} } . Suppose that
is an alternating mapping.
This means that if we swap two vectors, them the sign is changing.