A class of counterexamples to the
Cancellation Problem for arbitrary rings

Arno van den Essen; Peter van Rossum

doi:10.4064/ap76-1-8

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A class of counterexamples to the Cancellation Problem for arbitrary rings

Volume 76 / 2001

Arno van den Essen, Peter van Rossum Annales Polonici Mathematici 76 (2001), 89-93 MSC: 14R10, 13B25. DOI: 10.4064/ap76-1-8

Abstract

We present a class of counterexamples to the Cancellation Problem over arbitrary commutative rings, using non-free stably free modules and locally nilpotent derivations.

Authors

Arno van den EssenDepartment of Mathematics
University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld 1
6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Peter van RossumDepartment of Mathematics
University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld 1
6525 ED Nijmegen
The Netherlands
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