Stillman's question for exterior algebras and Herzog's conjecture on Betti numbers of syzygy modules (Q1789658)

A recurring theme in the study of Koszul rings is to find analogues of results that are true for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of modules over a polynomial ring. A famous conjecture of Stillman states that if $S$ is a polynomial ring and $I$ is a homogeneous ideal of $S$, then there is an upper bound on the projective dimension of $S/I$, as an $S$-module, that only depends on the number and degrees of the minimal generators of $I$. Caviglia showed that this conjecture is equivalent to the analogous one for the regularity. \textit{T. Ananyan} and \textit{M. Hochster} [``Small subalgebras of polynomial rings and Stillman's conjecture'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1610.09268}] proved that Stillman's conjecture is indeed true. A natural question that arises from these results is: is Stillman's conjecture (the version with regularity) true over any Koszul ring? \par Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero and $E$ the positively graded exterior algebra of the $k$-vector space generated by the elements $e_1,e_2,\dots, e_{2n}$, where $n$ is a positive integer, and let $f=e_1e_2+\cdots+e_{2n-1}e_{2n}$. In this paper the author proves that $\mathrm{reg}_E(E/(f))=n$, showing that Stillman's conjecture is not true for exterior algebras, and therefore not true for general Koszul rings. \par The author also provides counterexamples to a conjecture of Herzog regarding the Betti numbers in the linear strand of syzygy modules over polynomial rings. These counterexamples are BGG dual to the ideals $(f)$ of $E$ mentioned in the previous paragraph.