The finitistic dimension conjecture asserts that any finite-dimensional algebra over a field should have finite finitistic dimension. Recently, this conjecture is reduced to studying finitistic dimensions for extensions of algebras. In this paper, we investigate those extensions of Artin algebras in which some radical-power of smaller algebras is a one-sided ideal in bigger algebras. Our results, however, are formulated more generally for an arbitrary ideal: Let $B\subseteq A$ be an extension of Artin algebras and $I$ an ideal of $B$ such that the full subcategory of $B/I$-modules is $B$-syzygy-finite. Then: (1) If the extension is right-bounded (for example, proj.dim$(A_B)$ is finite), $I A\, rad(B)\subseteq B$ and fin.dim$(A)$ is finite, then fin.dim$(B)$ is finite. (2) If $I\, rad(B)$ is a left ideal of $A$ and $A$ is torsionless-finite, then fin.dim$(B)$ is finite. Particularly, if $I$ is specified to a power of the radical of $B$, then our results not only generalize some ones in the literature (see Corollaries 1.3 and 1.4), but also provide some completely new ways to detect algebras of finite finitistic dimensions.

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