Timeline for Is the Grothendieck ring of varieties reduced?
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| Oct 2, 2010 at 10:10 | vote | accept | Dan Petersen | ||
| Sep 28, 2010 at 4:23 | comment | added | Torsten Ekedahl | Just a clarification: $A$ exists over some number field and hence over all larger fields. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 2:20 | history | edited | Chandan Singh Dalawat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 27, 2010 at 20:37 | comment | added | Qing Liu | Very nice example ! So in characteristic 0, the Grothendieck ring of varieties is not reduced (at least over some field $k$). Probably neither in postive characteristic. | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 16:22 | history | answered | Torsten Ekedahl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |