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QUASI MULTIPLICATION AND $K$-GROUPS

Part of: Categories and geometry Grothendieck groups and $K_0$ Homological methods Whitehead groups and $K_1$

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

TSIU-KWEN LEE  and
ALBERT JEU-LIANG SHEU
TSIU-KWEN LEE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan email tklee@math.ntu.edu.tw
ALBERT JEU-LIANG SHEU*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
*
✉sheu@math.ku.edu
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Abstract

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We give a negative answer to the question raised by Mart Abel about whether his proposed definition of ${K}_{0} $ and ${K}_{1} $ groups in terms of quasi multiplication is indeed equivalent to the established ones in algebraic $K$-theory.

Keywords

K0-groupK1-groupquasi multiplicationquasi invertibilityGrothendieck groupJacobson radicalalgebraic K-theorytopological K-theory

MSC classification

Secondary: 16E20: Grothendieck groups, $K$-theory, etc. 18F30: Grothendieck groups 19A99: None of the above, but in this section 19B99: None of the above, but in this section
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 257 - 267
Copyright
Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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