On the defining equations of the tangent cone of a numerical semigroup ring

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DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.07.008zbMATH Open1333.13023arXiv1308.4644OpenAlexW2045824603MaRDI QIDQ406344FDOQ406344

Dumitru I. Stamate, Jürgen Herzog

Publication date: 8 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let mathbfa=a1<dots<ar be a sequence of positive integers, and let Hmathbfa denote the semigroup generated by a1,dots,ar. For an integer kgeq0 we denote by mathbfa+k the shifted sequence a1+k,dots,ar+k. Fix a field K. We show that for all kgg0 the associated graded ring of the semigroup ring K[Hmathbfa+k] is Cohen--Macaulay and that it has the same Betti numbers as K[Hmathbfa+k] itself. As a consequence, we show that the number of defining equations of the tangent cone of a numerical semigroup ring is bounded by a value depending only on the width of the semigroup, where the width of a numerical semigroup is defined to be the difference of the largest and the smallest element in the minimal generating set of the semigroup. We also provide a conjectured upper bound of the above number of equations and we verify it in some cases.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4644




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