Bass–Quillen conjecture for vector bundles on affine schemes

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Let XX be a regular noetherian affine scheme of finite Krull dimension, and let Vectr(X)\mathrm{Vect}_r(X) denote the set of isomorphism classes of rank rr vector bundles on XX. For each n≥1n\geq 1, consider the pullback map induced by the projection X×\mathdsAn→XX\times\mathds{A}^n\to X.

Bass–Quillen conjecture. The pullback map

Vectr(X)→Vectr(X×\mathdsAn)\mathrm{Vect}_r(X)\rightarrow\mathrm{Vect}_r(X\times\mathds{A}^n)

is a bijection for all r≥1r\geq 1 and all n≥1n\geq 1.

This generalizes the Quillen–Suslin theorem from affine space over a field to regular noetherian affine schemes. It is a fundamental problem about homotopy invariance of vector bundles and is closely related to the classification of finitely generated projective modules over polynomial rings.

References

Primary source

Benjamin Antieau and Elden Elmanto, “A primer for unstable motivic homotopy theory”, arXiv:1605.00929 (2016).

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