On general fiber product rings, Poincaré series and their structure

Abstract The present paper deals with the investigation of the structure of general fiber product rings R×TS , where R, S and T are local rings with common residue field. We show that the Poincaré series of any R-module over the fiber product ring R×TS is bounded by a rational function. In addition, we give a description of depth(R×TS) , which is an open problem in this theory. As a biproduct, using the characterization of the Betti numbers over R×TS obtained, we provide certain cases of the Cohen-Macaulayness of R×TS and, in particular, we show that R×TS is always non-regular. Some positive answers for the Buchsbaum-Eisenbud-Horrocks and Total rank conjectures over R×TS are also established.