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Projective Modules Over Polynomial Rings

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In 1976, Quillen [Q] and Suslin [Su 1] proved the following conjecture of Serre:-Conjecture: (Serre) Every finitely generated projective module over a polynomial ring k[T 1,..., T n ] over a field k is free.

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Bhatwadekar, S.M. (1999). Projective Modules Over Polynomial Rings. In: Passi, I.B.S. (eds) Algebra. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9996-3_3

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