Peskine–Szpiro dimension inequality conjecture

Let (R,m)(R,\mathfrak{m}) be a local ring, and let p\mathfrak{p} and q\mathfrak{q} be prime ideals in RR. Assume that p\mathfrak{p} has finite projective dimension and

p+q=m.\sqrt{\mathfrak{p}+\mathfrak{q}}=\mathfrak{m}.

Peskine–Szpiro conjecture. Then

dim(R/p)+dim(R/q)dimR.\text{dim}\,(R/\mathfrak{p})+\text{dim}\,(R/\mathfrak{q})\leq\text{dim}\, R.

The source calls this a famous conjecture concerning finiteness of projective dimensions over regular local rings and cites Peskine and Szpiro. Its resolution status is not supplied in the excerpt.

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Primary source

Sean Sather-Wagstaff, “Multiplicities and a dimension inequality for unmixed modules”, arXiv:math/0212107 (2002).

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