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Free Summands of Stably Free Modules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert W. Swift*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7
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Abstract

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In this note we show that the generic orthogonal stably free modules of type (2, 7) and (3, 8) have one free summand. This completes the work of other authors on free summands of orthogonal stably free modules.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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