Miyanishi's characterization of the affine 3-space does not hold in higher dimensions

2000/07/19 by Shulim Kaliman, Mikhail Zaidenberg, Kaliman, Shulim +1
Mathematics · #13A02 (Primary) 13F20 (Secondary) #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Commutative Algebra (math.AC) #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.AC #math.AG #msc:13A02 #msc:13F20

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0007118

16p. (to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier)

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Abstract

We present an example which confirms the assertion of the title.

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