Stillman's conjecture on projective dimension of polynomial-ring quotients

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Let KK be a field and let R=K[x1,…,xN]R=K[x_1,\ldots,x_N] be a polynomial ring. For fixed positive integers nn and d1,…,dnd_1,\ldots,d_n, let I⊆RI\subseteq R be an ideal generated by nn homogeneous polynomials of degrees d1,…,dnd_1,\ldots,d_n, and let pd⁡(R/I)\operatorname{pd}(R/I) denote the projective dimension of R/IR/I as an RR-module. Stillman's conjecture. There is an upper bound for pd⁡(R/I)\operatorname{pd}(R/I) depending only on nn and d1,…,dnd_1,\ldots,d_n, and independent of the number of variables NN. This conjecture concerns uniform homological bounds for ideals with fixed numbers and degrees of generators; the paper proves the claim for ideals generated by quadratic polynomials, while the general statement was open in the source.

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Tigran Ananyan and Melvin Hochster, “Ideals Generated by Quadratic Polynomials”, arXiv:1106.0839 (2011).

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