Centre-determines-cancellation conjecture for affine noetherian domains

Let kk be an uncountable algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let AA be an affine noetherian domain over kk. Write Z(A)Z(A) for the centre of AA. An algebra is cancellative if its isomorphism type is determined after adjoining a commutative polynomial variable, and strongly cancellative if the analogous determination holds after adjoining any finite number of such variables. Suppose that Z(A)Z(A) is affine and cancellative, respectively strongly cancellative. Centre-determines-cancellation conjecture. Then AA is cancellative, respectively strongly cancellative. This conjecture proposes that, over sufficiently well-behaved fields, cancellation properties of an affine noetherian domain are completely controlled by its centre; the source gives no resolution.

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Jason P. Bell, Maryam Hamidizadeh, Hongdi Huang and Helbert Venegas, “Noncommutative analogues of a cancellation theorem of Abhyankar, Eakin, and Heinzer”, arXiv:1909.04023 (2019).

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