Monomial curve families supporting Rossi's conjecture (Q390385)

It was conjectured by M. E. Rossi that the Hilbert function of a one-dimensional Gorenstein local ring is non-decreasing. This conjecture is open even for Gorenstein local rings corresponding to numerical semigroups, namely to monomial curves in affine 4-space. In the paper under review, the authors give a method to construct new large families of monomial curves in affine 4-space with corresponding Gorenstein local rings in embedding dimension 4 supporting Rossi's conjecture. By starting with any monomial curve in affine 2-space, this constructive method provides monomial curve families in affine 4-space having non-Cohen-Macaulay tangent cones with non-decreasing Hilbert functions.