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A Tight Bound on the Projective Dimension of Four Quadrics

Commutative Algebra 2017-10-13 v3

Abstract

Motivated by Stillman's question, we show that the projective dimension of an ideal generated by four quadric forms in a polynomial ring is at most 6; moreover, this bound is tight. We achieve this bound, in part, by giving a characterization of the low degree generators of ideals primary to height three primes of multiplicities one and two.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6334,
  title  = {A Tight Bound on the Projective Dimension of Four Quadrics},
  author = {Craig Huneke and Paolo Mantero and Jason McCullough and Alexandra Seceleanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6334},
  year   = {2017}
}

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34 pages (to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra)