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Bézout ring with non-trivial Picard group?

[I asked this on stackexchange here a few weeks ago to no response] A ring is called Bézout when its finitely generated ideals are principal. Q: Is there a nice example of a Bézout ring $R$ with ...
Badam Baplan's user avatar
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What is the right definition of the Picard group of a commutative ring?

This is a rather technical question with no particular importance in any case of actual interest to me, but I've been writing up some notes on commutative algebra and flailing on this point for some ...
Pete L. Clark's user avatar