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The paper under review is a write-up of a lecture delivered by the second author at the Ferrara Meeting in honor of M. Fiorentini. Full proofs will appear elsewhere. From the authors' note: Some topics related to the monomial conjecture are discussed: maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules, big Cohen-Macaulay modules, dual form of the conjecture, the nullity of Auslander's delta invariant, the canonical element conjecture, syzygy theorem, etc. One of the results: Consider all complete local rings of characteristic \(p > 0\) (characteristic zero, mixed characteristic, resp.). The following are equivalent: (a) All these rings satisfy the monomial conjecture. (b) For every unmixed ideal \(\mathfrak b\) of zero divisors in a Gorenstein ring \(R\) of this type, \(\delta(R/{\mathfrak b})= 0\). (c) All these rings satisfy the canonical element conjecture. In particular, in the equicharacteristic case, the equality \(\delta(R/{\mathfrak b}) = 0\) in (b) always holds. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0913.00044].