Scissors congruence as K-theory

Inna Zakharevich

Scissors congruence groups have traditionally been expressed algebraically in terms of group homology. We give an alternate construction of these groups by producing them as the 0-level in the algebraic K-theory of a Waldhausen category.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 14 (2012), No. 1, pp.181-202.

doi:10.4310/HHA.2012.v14.n1.a9

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