During the conference held in 2017 in Minneapolis for his 60th birthday, Gennady Lyubeznik proposed the following problem: Find a complete local domain and an element in it having three minimal primes such that the sum of any two of them has height 2 and the sum of the three of them has height 4. In this note this beautiful problem will be discussed, and will be shown that the principle leading to the fact that such a ring cannot exist is false. The specific problem, though, remains open
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