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Existence of unimodular elements in a projective module

Commutative Algebra 2022-04-18 v1

Abstract

Let RR be an affine algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00 with dim(R)=n(R)=n. Let PP be a projective A=R[T1,,Tk]A=R[T_1,\cdots,T_k]-module of rank nn with determinant LL. Suppose II is an ideal of AA of height nn such that there are two surjections α:P ⁣ ⁣ ⁣I\alpha:P\to\!\!\!\to I and ϕ:LAn1 ⁣ ⁣ ⁣I\phi:L\oplus A^{n-1} \to\!\!\!\to I. Assume that either (a) k=1k=1 and n3n\geq 3 or (b) kk is arbitrary but n4n\geq 4 is even. Then PP has a unimodular element.

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@article{arxiv.1611.02471,
  title  = {Existence of unimodular elements in a projective module},
  author = {Manoj K. Keshari and Md. Ali Zinna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02471},
  year   = {2022}
}
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