The finitistic dimension conjecture via DG-rings

Publication date: 5 September 2022

Abstract: Given an associative ring

A

, we present a new approach for establishing the finiteness of the big finitistic projective dimension

o p e r a t o r n a m e F P D (A)

. The idea is to find a sufficiently nice non-positively graded differential graded ring

B

such that

m a t h r m H^{0} (B) = A

and such that

o p e r a t o r n a m e F P D (B) < i n f t y

. We show that one can always find such a

B

provided that

A

is noetherian and has a noncommutative dualizing complex. We then use the intimate relation between

o p e r a t o r n a m e m a t h s f D (B)

and

o p e r a t o r n a m e m a t h s f D (m a t h r m H^{0} (B))

to deduce results about

o p e r a t o r n a m e F P D (A)

. As an application, we generalize a recent sufficient condition of Rickard, for

o p e r a t o r n a m e F P D (A) < i n f t y

in terms of generation of

o p e r a t o r n a m e m a t h s f D (A)

from finite dimensional algebras over a field to all noetherian rings which admit a dualizing complex.

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