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Algebraic independence in the Grothendieck ring of varieties

Author(s): N. Naumann
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 1653-1683.
MSC (2000): Primary 14A10
Posted: September 19, 2006
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Abstract: We give sufficient cohomological criteria for the classes of given varieties over a field $ k$ to be algebraically independent in the Grothendieck ring of varieties over $ k$ and construct some examples.

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N. Naumann
Affiliation: NWF I- Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-06-03975-4
PII: S 0002-9947(06)03975-4
Keywords: Grothendieck ring of varieties, motivic measure
Received by editor(s): July 28, 2004
Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 20, 2005
Posted: September 19, 2006
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
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