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Free Summands of Stably Free Modules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert W. Swift
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.

Keywords

13C10
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1982 , pp. 361 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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