Stillman's conjecture on uniform projective dimension

Let d1,,drd_1,\dots,d_r be positive integers. For homogeneous polynomials f1,,frf_1,\dots,f_r of degrees deg(fi)=di\deg(f_i)=d_i in a polynomial ring

S=C[x1,x2,,xn],S=\mathbb{C}[x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n],

where nn is arbitrary, consider the quotient S/(f1,,fr)S/(f_1,\dots,f_r) and its projective dimension. Stillman's conjecture. There exists a positive integer B(d1,,dr)B(d_1,\dots,d_r), depending only on the degrees, such that

pdSS/(f1,,fr)B(d1,,dr).\operatorname{pd}_S S/(f_1,\dots,f_r)\leq B(d_1,\dots,d_r).

The conjecture asserts that projective dimension is bounded independently of the number of variables. It is equivalent to saying that the invariant projective dimension is degreewise bounded; the conjecture has since been proved, so its status is recorded as solved.

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Primary source

Daniel Erman, Steven V Sam and Andrew Snowden, “Cubics in 10 variables vs. cubics in 1000 variables: Uniformity phenomena for bounded degree polynomials”, arXiv:1809.09402 (2018).

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