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Explicit Stillman bounds for all degrees

Commutative Algebra 2026-05-28 v3

Abstract

In 2016 Ananyan and Hochster proved Stillman's conjecture by showing the existence of a uniform upper bound on the length of an RηR_\eta-sequence containing fixed nn forms of degree at most dd in polynomial rings over a field. This result yields many other uniform bounds including bounds on the projective dimension of the ideals generated by nn forms of degree at most dd. Explicit values of these bounds for forms of degree 55 and higher are not yet known. This article constructs such explicit bounds, one of which is an upper bound for the projective dimension of all homogeneous ideals, in polynomial rings over a field, generated by nn forms of degree at most dd. In the settings of the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture, we derive an explicit bound of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of a nondegenerate prime ideal PP in a polynomial ring SS in terms of the multiplicity of S/PS/P.

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@article{arxiv.2507.19617,
  title  = {Explicit Stillman bounds for all degrees},
  author = {Giulio Caviglia and Yihui Liang and Cheng Meng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19617},
  year   = {2026}
}
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