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Absolute stable rank and Witt cancellation for noncommutative rings. (English) Zbl 0639.16015

Bass introduced the notion of “stable range” conditions on a ring R in order to characterize those integers n for which every matrix in GL\({}_ n\)(R) can be row reduced to a matrix with the same last row and column as the identity matrix. Similar questions concerning orthogonal groups over commutative rings led M. R. Stein to introduce “absolute stable range” conditions for commutative rings. The authors of this paper take up the question of absolute stable range and its connection with cancellation of quadratic forms over non-commutative rings. They provide a concise survey of previous results and their interconnections (including some examples of rings whose stable ranges and absolute stable ranges differ) and prove several new and interesting theorems.
Reviewer: M.R.Stein

MSC:

16E20 Grothendieck groups, \(K\)-theory, etc.
20G35 Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes
11E16 General binary quadratic forms
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