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A remark on matrix rings over free ideal rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. M. Cohn
Affiliation:
University of Chicago and Queen Mary College, London University

Extract

If R is any ring then the set of isomorphism types of finitely generated projective right R-modules may be made into a semigroup by defining

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Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1966

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