On robustness and related properties on toric ideals (Q2688243)

In the paper under review, the authors study the robustness and generalized robustness for toric ideals of both graphs and numerical semigroups. For toric ideals of graphs, they characterize combinatorially the graphs giving rise to robust and to generalized robust toric ideals generated by quadratic binomials. For toric ideals of numerical semigroups, they determine that one of of its initial ideals is a complete intersection if and only if the semigroup is free. Thus they characterize all complete intersection numerical semigroups which are minimally generated by one of its Gröbner basis and, as a consequence, all the Betti numbers of the toric ideal and its corresponding initial ideal coincide. Furthermore, also for numerical semigroups, they show that the ideal is generalized robust if and only if the semigroup has a unique Betti element and that there are only trivial examples of robust ideals.