(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, U.S.A. and;(2) Department of Mathematics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract:
We prove that for an arbitrary endomorphism of a ring R the group K1(Rt]) splits into the direct sum of K1(R) and Ñil (r;). Moreover, for any such R and Ñil (R; ) is isomorphic to Ñil (R ; ) for some ring R with : R R – an isomorphism.