Intersecting the dimension filtration with the slice one for (relative) motivic categories

In this paper we prove that the intersections of the levels of the dimension filtration on Voevodsky’s motivic complexes over a field $k$ with the levels of the slice one are “as small as possible”, i.e., that $Obj d_{\le m}DM^{eff}{-,R} \cap Obj DM^{eff}{-,R} (i)=Obj d_{\le m-i} DM^{eff}_{-,R} (i)$(for$m,i\ge 0$and$R$ being any coefficient ring in which the exponential characteristic of $k$ invertible). This statement is applied to prove that a conjecture of J. Ayoub is equivalent to a certain orthogonality assumption. We also establish a vast generalization of our intersection result to relative motivic categories (that are required to fulfil a certain list of “axioms”). In the process we prove several new properties of relative motives and of the so-called Chow weight structures for them.