A note on D. Quillen’s paper: 'Projective modules over polynomial rings' (Invent. Math. 36 (1976), 167–171)

We give a simplified proof to the following theorem due to D. Quillen: if A is a commutative noetherian ring of global dimension ⩽ 1 \leqslant 1 , then finitely generated projective modules over A [ T 1 , … , T n ] A[{T_1}, \ldots ,{T_n}] are extended from A. We prove also that if A is a commutative noetherian ring of global dimension d, then finitely generated projective modules of rank > d > d over A [ T 1 , … , T n ] A[{T_1}, \ldots ,{T_n}] are extended from A.