A negative answer to a question of Bass

Abstract

In this companion paper to arXiv:0802.1928 we provide an example of an isolated surface singularity $R$ over a number field such that $K_0(R)=K_0(R[t])$ but $K_0(R)\ne K_0(R[t_1,t_2])$. This answers, negatively, a question of Bass.

The paper was previously part of arXiv:0802.1928