Two examples of the Bass-Quillen-Suslin conjectures (Q1101518)

Any row \(v=(v_ 0,v_ 1,...,v_ r)\) of an invertible matrix has the property that there is another row \((w_ 0,w_ 1,...,w_ r)\) with \(v_ 0w_ 0+...+v_ rw_ r=1\). Such a vector v is called a unimodular vector of length \(r+1\). The Bass-Quillen-Suslin conjecture asks whether the converse is true for unimodular vectors of R[X] where R is either a regular local ring or a local ring with rö invertible. The conjecture has been proven for several cases. The author shows that when R is regular local of dimension three and contains a coefficient field and when R has dimension \(\leq 4\) with positive characteristic \(p>3,\) the conjecture holds.