Recent Developments on the Boij-Soderberg Conjecture

Michael Goff
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington

Abstract: The Boij-Soderberg conjecture is a far-reaching conjecture on the Betti numbers that appear in the minimal free resolution of a module over a polynomial ring. We discuss these concepts and the conjecture. The conjecture was proven in January 2008 in the Cohen-Macaulay case by Eisenbud and Schreyer, and a non-Cohen Macaulay version was proven in March by Boij. If there is time, we will discuss some of the implications.