Kernel of an induced map on a tensor product from a bilinear map.

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Suppose that $A,B,C$ are $R$-modules for $R$ a commutative unital ring, and

$$ \mathcal{B} : A \times B \to C, $$

is an $R$-bilinear form inducing a map on the tensor product

$$ \tilde{\mathcal{B}} : A \otimes_R B \to C, $$

where

$$ \tilde{\mathcal{B}}\left( \sum_i \left(a_i \otimes_R b_i\right)\right) = \sum_i \mathcal{B}(a_i,b_i). $$

Then is there a general method to characterise $\ker\tilde{\mathcal{B}}$?

We can make the following simple statement: If

$$ \iota : A \times B \to A \otimes_R B, $$

is the canonical homomorphism, then we know that $\mathcal{B} = \tilde{\mathcal{B}}\circ \iota$, so

$$ \ker \mathcal{B} = \ker{\iota} + \iota^{-1}\left( \ker\left( \tilde{\cal{B}}_{\big \vert \iota(A \times B)} \right) \right), $$

and so in particular

$$ \ker\left( \tilde{\cal{B}}_{\big \vert \iota(A \times B)} \right) = \iota(\ker\mathcal{B}), $$

but can we make any statements more general than this? Any comments or even just reference suggestions would be greatly appreciated.