AbstractWe address two aspects of finitely generated modules of finite projective dimension over local rings and their connection in between: embeddability and grade of order ideals of minimal generators of syzygies. We provide a solution of the embeddability problem and prove important reductions and special cases of the order ideal conjecture. In particular, we derive that, in any local ringRof mixed characteristicp> 0, wherepis a nonzero divisor, ifIis an ideal of finite projective dimension overRandp𝜖Iorpis a nonzero divisor onR/I, then every minimal generator ofIis a nonzero divisor. Hence, ifPis a prime ideal of finite projective dimension in a local ringR, then every minimal generator ofPis a nonzero divisor inR.
On modules of finite projective dimension
