The Cuntz semigroup of rings with stable rank one

Abstract

We study the Cuntz semigroup of arbitrary rings with stable rank one. We prove that Cuntz subequivalence between countably generated projective right modules $P$, $Q$ is equivalent to $P$ being isomorphic to a pure submodule of $Q$, whilst Cuntz equivalence amounts to isomorphism.~We also prove order-cancellation of finitely generated projective modules (and, more generally, pairs of modules admitting certain complements) from direct sums with countably generated projective modules.

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