K1 of a ring as relative K1 group
Proposition
Proof
Note that - either by explicite computation or by abstract nonsense (here the diagram is an equivalence to the the constant diagram from a point, equivalence of categories as initial functor)
Thus we get natural isomorphism
(cf infinite general linear group functor, infinite elementary linear group functor)
which induces a natural isomorphism
Then applictaion of the cokernel cokernel functor preserves the isomorphism