Stability structure of linear group over rings (Q1605602)

It is shown that the stability of rings follows from the stability of factor rings by the Jacobson radical as well as from the stability of localizations of associative rings at maximal ideals of their centers. It is proved that matrices with at least one zero element are stable and from the stability of all elements of the general linear group over an associative ring its stability follows. The most important results of \textit{H. Bass} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 22, 5-60 (1964; Zbl 0248.18025), Algebraic K-theory, New York-Amsterdam: W. A. Benjamin (1968; Zbl 0174.30302)]; \textit{L. N. Vaserstein} [Algebraic K-theory, Proc. Conf., Evanston 1980, Lect. Notes Math. 854, 456-465 (1981; Zbl 0464.20030), Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 96, 209-214 (1986; Zbl 0594.16007)]; \textit{S. G. Khlebutin} [Usp. Mat. Nauk 39, No. 3(237), 245-246 (1984; Zbl 0547.20047)]; \textit{A. A. Suslin} [Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 41, 235-252 (1977; Zbl 0354.13009)]; \textit{J. S. Wilson} [Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 71, 163-177 (1972; Zbl 0237.20044)]; and \textit{I. Z. Golubchik} [Fundam. Prikl. Mat. 1, No. 3, 661-668 (1995; Zbl 0867.20037)] relative to stability of associative rings are discussed in the article.