Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0090
Abstract:
The recent work of Kurano and Roberts on Serre's positivity conjecture suggests the following dimension inequality: for prime ideals and in a local, Cohen-Macaulay ring such that we have . We establish this dimension inequality for excellent, local, Cohen-Macaulay rings which contain a field, for certain low-dimensional cases and when is regular.