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The Cohn localization of the free group ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. Farber
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Raymond and Beverly Sackler, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
P. Vogel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssiniére, F-44072 Nantes Cedex 03, France

Extract

In [1] P. Cohn suggested the construction of a localization of a ring with respect to a class of square matrices. Let us briefly recall the definitions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1992

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