Vector bundles on contractible smooth schemes (Q935196)

The authors produce explicit arbitrary-dimensional families of nonisomorphic \(\mathbb{A}^{1}\)-contractible schemes, with each scheme in the family equipped with arbitrary-dimensional moduli of nonisomorphic vector bundles, of every sufficiently large rank \(n\), as one desires; neither the schemes nor the vector bundles on them are distinguishable by algebraic \(K\)-theory. One also discuss the triviality of vector bundles for certain smooth complex affine varieties whose underlying complex manifolds are contractible but that are not necessarily \(\mathbb{A}^{1}\)-contractible.