The quotient unimodular vector group is nilpotent

Abstract: Jose-Rao introduced and studied the Special Unimodular Vector group

S U m_{r} (R)

and

E U m_{r} (R)

, its Elementary Unimodular Vector subgroup. They proved that for

r g e q 2

,

E U m_{r} (R)

is a normal subgroup of

S U m_{r} (R)

. The Jose-Rao theorem says that the quotient Unimodular Vector group,

S U m_{r} (R) / E U m_{r} (R)

, for

r g e q 2

, is a subgroup of the orthogonal quotient group

S O_{2 (r + 1)} (R) / E O_{2 (r + 1)} (R)

. The latter group is known to be nilpotent by the work of Hazrat-Vavilov, following methods of A. Bak; and so is the former. In this article we give a direct proof, following ideas of A. Bak, to show that the quotient Unimodular Vector group is nilpotent of class

l e q d = d i m (R)

. We also use the Quillen-Suslin theory, inspired by A. Bak's method, to prove that if

R = A [X]

, with

A

a local ring, then the quotient Unimodular Vector group is abelian.

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