A question of Nori, Segre classes of ideals and other applications (Q1934972)

The authors prove the moving lemma, the addition and subtraction principles, in a more general setup than the available ones. They apply these results to explore a question of Nori on homotopy of sections of projective modules. In the main result of this paper they prove that let \(k\) be an infinite field and let \(A\) be a regular domain which is essentially of finite type over \(k\). Let \(I\) be an ideal of \(A[T]\) and let \(P\) be a projective \(A\)-module of rank \(n\geq \dim A[T] -\mathrm{ht}I +2\). Then any surjection \(\phi : P[T]\longrightarrow\longrightarrow I/(I^2T)\) can be lifted to a surjection from \(P[T]\) to \(I\). They provide one application and investigate the Segre class of ideals, extending the existing results.