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Quillen’s lemma [17] is generalized to modules of arbitrary Krull dimension. This leads to some generalizations of the results of [5] and [12] for the Weyl algebras of index > 1.
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Joseph, A. A generalization of Quillen’s lemma and its application to the Weyl algebras. Israel J. Math. 28, 177–192 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759808
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