Wedderburn’s factorization theorem application to reduced $K$-theory
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Abstract:
This article provides a short and elementary proof of the key theorem of reduced $K$-theory, namely Platonov’s Congruence theorem. Our proof is based on Wedderburn’s factorization theorem.References
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Additional Information
- R. Hazrat
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, P. O. Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
- MR Author ID: 654632
- Email: rhazrat@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
- Received by editor(s): April 13, 2000
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 12, 2000
- Published electronically: May 25, 2001
- Communicated by: Lance W. Small
- © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 311-314
- MSC (2000): Primary 16A39
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06083-X
- MathSciNet review: 1862107