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For questions about projective modules over a ring and projective objects in related categories.

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A ring on which all finitely generated projectives modules are free but not all projectives ...

Cher Michel, these rings are uncommon. Over a local ring ALL projective modules are free : this is a celebrated theorem due to Kaplansky. If $R$ is commutative noetherian and $Spec(R)$ is connected …
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Is every locally free module of rank $1$ over a commutative ring concretely invertible?

Since this subject is full of misunderstandings (see here, here, here, and here) let us fix a precise terminology. Let $A$ be a commutative ring and $P$ an $A$-module. I) We'll say that $P$ is a lo …
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Nonfree projective module over a regular UFD?

If Pete or someone else is still interested despite the fine answers already given, here is an analysis of what might be the simplest situation. Let $k$ be a field of characteristic $\neq 2$ and defin …
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What is the right definition of the Picard group of a commutative ring?

1) About the second definition: $\alpha$) It is not true that for an arbitrary ring a) is equivalent to c): Indeed Bourbaki in Algèbre commutative, Chapitre II, Exercices §5, 12) c) exhibits a ring …
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