Indecomposable projective modules on affine domains. II (Q1123942): Difference between revisions

[For part I see Compos. Math. 60, 115-132 (1986; Zbl 0607.13009).] Let A be an affine normal domain of dimension \(d\geq 2\) over a universal domain. In this paper, a necessary and sufficient condition is obtained for the existence of projective A-modules of rank d which have no direct summand of rank 1. The condition is expressed in two equivalent ways: (i) the Chow group of zero cycles of A is non-zero; (ii) the subgroup of \(K_ 0(A)\), the Grothendieck group of projective A- modules, generated by the classes of residue fields of smooth points of Spec(A), is nonzero. In the course of the proof, the following structure theorem is obtained for the divisor class group of a normal projective variety over an algebraically closed field k: It is an extension of a finitely generated abelian group by the group of k-points of an abelian variety.