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A Morita Cancellation Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2019

D.-M. Lu
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China Email: [email protected]
Q.-S. Wu
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Email: [email protected]
J. J. Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Box 354350, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA Email: [email protected]

Abstract

We study a Morita-equivalent version of the Zariski cancellation problem.

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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2019

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Footnotes

D.-M. Lu was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11671351). Q.-S. Wu was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11771085 and Key Project No. 11331006). J.J. Zhang was partially supported by the US National Science Foundation (Nos. DMS-1402863 and DMS-1700825).

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