Bounds on depth of tensor products of modules

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Abstract: Let R be a local complete intersection ring and let M and N be nonzero finitely generated R-modules. We employ Auslander's transpose in the study of the vanishing of Tor and obtain useful bounds for the depth of the tensor product MotimesRN. An application of our main argument shows that, if M is locally free on the the punctured spectrum of R, then either depth(MotimesRN)geqdepth(M)+depth(N)−depth(R), or depth(MotimesRN)leqcod(R). Along the way we generalize an important theorem of D. A. Jorgensen and determine the number of consecutive vanishing of ToriR(M,N) required to ensure the vanishing of all higher ToriR(M,N).


Let \(R\) be a regular local ring, \(M\) and \(N\) be two finitely generated \(R\)-modules such that \(\mathrm{Tor}^R_i(M,N)=0\) for all \(i>0\). Call this vanishing property by ``Tor-independent. By a famous result of \textit{M. Auslander} [Ill. J. Math. 5, 631--647 (1961; Zbl 0104.26202)] there is a formula called ``depth formula: \(\mathrm{depth}(M\otimes N)=\mathrm{depth}((M)+\mathrm{depth}((N)-\mathrm{depth}((R)\). The depth formula extends to local complete intersection rings by the work of \textit{C. Huneke} and \textit{R. Wiegand} [Math. Ann. 299, No. 3, 449--476 (1994; Zbl 0803.13008)]. The paper deals with the following question: Let \(R\) be a local complete intersection ring of codimension \(c\). Assume \(M\otimes N\) is a \((c + 1)\)-syzygy of some finitely generated \(R\)-module. Under what conditions is \(M\) and \( N\) Tor-independent. There are several related results to this question. Let us recall a corollary of the paper under review: Corollary. Let \(R\) be a hypersurface ring with an isolated singularity and let \(M\) and \(N\) be nonfree maximal Cohen-Macaulay \(R\)-modules. Then \(\mathrm{depth}(M \otimes_R N)\leq 1\). Also, the authors present a generalization of [\textit{D. A. Jorgensen}, J. Algebra 211, No. 2, 578--598 (1999; Zbl 0926.13007)]. This determines a number of consecutive vanishing of \(\mathrm{Tor}^R_i (M, N)\) that guaranties the higher vanishing of \(\mathrm{Tor}^R_i(M, N)\).



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