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Uniform bounds on projective dimension and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

Commutative Algebra 2026-05-14 v2

Abstract

In this article we obtain uniform effective upper bounds for the projective dimension and the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of homogeneous ideals inside a standard graded polynomial ring SS over a field. Such bounds are independent of the number of variables of SS, in the spirit of Stillman's conjecture and of the Ananyan-Hochster's theorem, and depend on partial data extracted from the beginning or the end of the resolution. In this direction, we extend a result of McCullough from 2012 regarding a bound on regularity in terms of half the syzygies to a bound on the projective dimension and the regularity of an ideal in terms of a fraction of the syzygies.

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@article{arxiv.2409.12787,
  title  = {Uniform bounds on projective dimension and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity},
  author = {Giulio Caviglia and Alessandro De Stefani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12787},
  year   = {2026}
}

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v2: minor changes