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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2025
Let d be a positive integer, and let
$\mathfrak {a}$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R. We answer Hartshorne’s question on cofiniteness of complexes posed in Hartshorne (1970, Invent. Math. 9, 145–164) in the cases
$\mathrm {dim}R=d$ or
$\mathrm {dim}R/\mathfrak {a}=d-1$ or
$\mathrm {ara}(\mathfrak {a})=d-1$, show that if
$d\leqslant 2$, then a complex
$X\in \mathrm {D}_\sqsubset (R)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite if and only if each homology module
$\mathrm {H}_i(X)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite; if R is regular local,
$\mathfrak {a}$ is perfect and
$d\leqslant 2$, then
$X\in \mathrm {D}(R)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite if and only if every
$\mathrm {H}_i(X)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite; if
$d\geqslant 3$, then
$X\in \mathrm {D}_\sqsubset (R)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite and
$\mathrm {Ext}^j_R(R/\mathfrak {a},\mathrm {H}_i(X))$ is finitely generated for
$j\leqslant d-2$ and
$i\in \mathbb {Z}$ if and only if every
$\mathrm {H}_{i}(X)$ is
$\mathfrak {a}$-cofinite.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12571035).