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Liftings of a monomial curve

Commutative Algebra 2018-10-03 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We study an operation, that we call lifting, creating non-isomorphic monomial curves from a single monomial curve. Our main result says that all but finitely many liftings of a monomial curve have Cohen-Macaulay tangent cones even if the tangent cone of the original curve is not Cohen-Macaulay. This implies that the Betti sequence of the tangent cone is eventually constant under this operation. Moreover, all liftings have Cohen-Macaulay tangent cones when the original monomial curve has a Cohen-Macaulay tangent cone. In this case, all the Betti sequences are nothing but the Betti sequence of the original curve.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07285,
  title  = {Liftings of a monomial curve},
  author = {Mesut Şahin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07285},
  year   = {2018}
}