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Recent works of M.A. Rieffel ([4], [5]) on the so-called “cancellation” property for projective modules over C*-algebras give sufficient motivation to consider his theory of stable ranks as a fruitful instrument in the non-stable K-theory of C*—algebras.
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Nagy, G. (1990). On the General Stable Rank for Pairs. In: Helson, H., Sz.-Nagy, B., Vasilescu, FH., Arsene, G. (eds) Linear Operators in Function Spaces. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 43. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7250-8_18
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