On minimal presentations of shifted affine semigroups with few generators

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2021.14.617arXiv2006.01396MaRDI QIDQ6341883FDOQ6341883

Authors: Christopher O'Neill, Isabel White 

Publication date: 2 June 2020

Abstract: An affine semigroup is a finitely generated subsemigroup of $(mathbb{Z}_{ge0}^d,+)$, and a numerical semigroup is an affine semigroup with $d=1$. A growing body of recent work examines shifted families of numerical semigroups, that is, families of numerical semigroups of the form $M_n=langlen+r_1,ldots,n+r_{k}angle$ for fixed $r_1,ldots,r_k$, with one semigroup for each value of the shift parameter $n$. It has been shown that within any shifted family of numerical semigroups, the size of any minimal presentation is bounded (in fact, this size is eventually periodic in $n$). In this paper, we consider shifted families of affine semigroups, and demonstrate that some, but not all, shifted families of 4-generated affine semigroups have arbitrarily large minimal presentations.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutative semigroups (20M14)

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