The arbitrary-degree elimination conjecture for the Rees algebra

Let RR be the polynomial ring underlying the construction, let A=R[a,b,x1,,xn,y1,,yn]A=R[a,b,x_1,\ldots,x_n,y_1,\ldots,y_n], and let f,g,h1,,hnf,g,h_1,\ldots,h_n be the polynomials defined recursively by the Jacobian construction in the source. Set

L=(f,g,h1,,hn)A.L=(f,g,h_1,\ldots,h_n)\subset A.

Arbitrary-degree elimination conjecture. For arbitrary nn, LL has projective dimension two and specializes to the defining ideal of the Rees algebra R\mathcal R.

The claim extends the verified degree-55 and degree-66 cases to arbitrary degree. The source reports computational evidence in those two cases, but gives no general proof or resolution.

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J. Hong, A. Simis and W. V. Vasconcelos, “On the homology of two-dimensional elimination”, arXiv:0704.0608 (2007).

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