• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.585-593
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• 1996

We make the definition of hermitian K-theory for nonunital rings which makes as many senses as possible. We next show that the excision property in rational hermitian K-theory implies the nullity of rational $H B^-$-homology which is the antisymmetric part of Bar homology.