{ "id": "1604.06703", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-04-22T15:16:38.000Z", "updated": "2016-04-22T15:16:38.000Z", "title": "The class of the affine line is a zero divisor in the Grothendieck ring: an improvement", "authors": [ "Nicolas Martin" ], "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Lev A. Borisov has shown that the class of the affine line is a zero divisor in the Grothendieck ring of algebraic varieties over complex numbers. We improve the final formula by removing a factor.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-04-22T15:16:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "zero divisor", "affine line", "grothendieck ring", "improvement", "algebraic varieties" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160406703M" } } }