Are all finitely generated projective k[t1, . . . , td]-modules free for an arbitrary field k and arbitrary d ∈ N? This question, set in Serre’s famous paper FAC in 1955, inspired an enormous activity of algebraists worldwide. The activity culminated in two independent confirmations of the question in 1976 by Quillen and Suslin. In the meanwhile the algebraic K-theory was created, in which one ...

A graph monoid is a commutative monoid for which there is a particularly simple presentation, given in terms of a quiver. Such monoids are known to satisfy various nonstable K-theoretical representability properties for either von Neumann regular rings or C*-algebras. We give a characterization of graph monoids within finitely generated antisymmetric refinement monoids. This characterization is...