On the uniform bound of Frobenius test exponents

Abstract

In this paper we prove the existence of a uniform bound for Frobenius test exponents for parameter ideals of a local ring $(R, \frak m)$ of prime characteristic in the following cases: (1) $R$ is generalized Cohen-Macaulay. Our proof is much more simpler than the original proof of Huneke, Katzman, Sharp and Yao, (2) The Frobenius actions on all lower local cohomologies $H^i_{\frak m}(R)$, $i < \dim R$, are nilpotent.