Dualizing complexes of seminormal affine semigroup rings and toric face rings (Q2254149)

Let \({\mathbf M}\) be a finitely generated additive submonoid of \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) (i.e., \({\mathbf M}\) is an affine semigroup). Let \(R=K[{\mathbf M}]\) be the affine semigroup ring of \({\mathbf M}\) over a field \(K\). In the paper under review, the author characterizes the seminormality of \(R\) in terms of the dualizing complex. Also, he provides a characterization for the normality of a Cohen-Macaulay semigroup ring \(R\) by the shape of the canonical module \(\omega_{R}\). Finally, the author characterizes the seminormality of a toric face ring in terms of the dualizing complex.