Finite-generation conjecture for modules over the completed algebra of vector fields

From papers

Let XX be a quasi-projective variety, let UU be an affine open subset, and write A=A(U)A={\mathcal A}(U) and AV=AV(U)AV={\mathcal {AV}}(U). Let MM be an AVAV-module that is finitely generated as an AA-module, and let JmJ_m denote the corresponding level-mm ideal in AVAV. Finite-generation conjecture. There exists mNm\in\mathbb N, depending on the rank of MM, such that JmJ_m acts trivially on MM. This would make the completion redundant for finite-rank modules, allowing one to work with a quotient algebra; the source further suggests consequences for local descriptions on étale charts and for sheafifying modules over smooth affine varieties, but does not establish the conjecture.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Yuly Billig and Colin Ingalls, “A universal sheaf of algebras governing representations of vector fields on quasi-projective varieties”, arXiv:2302.07918 (2026).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.