Summary: K-Theory 23: 251­303, 2001.
c 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
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Grothendieck Groups of Bundles on
Varieties over Finite Fields
A. AGBOOLA1
and D. BURNS2
1Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.
e-mail: agboola@math.ucsb.edu
2Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.
e-mail: david.burns@kcl.ac.uk
(Received: July 2000)
Abstract. Let X be an irreducible, projective variety over a finite field, and let A be a sheaf of rings
on X. In this paper, we study Grothendieck groups of categories of vector bundles over certain types
of ringed spaces (X, A).
Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 11-XX, 19-XX, 14-XX, 13-XX.
Key words: Grothendieck groups, classgroups, sheaves of algebras, realisable classes, Witt vectors.
0. Introduction
Let X be an irreducible, projective variety over a finite field k of characteristic p.
We write O, (or OX if we need to be more precise), for the structure sheaf of X. In

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