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On faces of the Kunz cone and the numerical semigroups within them

Combinatorics 2023-09-15 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

A numerical semigroup is a cofinite subset of the non-negative integers that is closed under addition and contains 0. Each numerical semigroup SS with fixed smallest positive element mm corresponds to an integer point in a rational polyhedral cone Cm\mathcal C_m, called the Kunz cone. Moreover, numerical semigroups corresponding to points in the same face FCmF \subseteq \mathcal C_m are known to share many properties, such as the number of minimal generators. In this work, we classify which faces of Cm\mathcal C_m contain points corresponding to numerical semigroups. Additionally, we obtain sharp bounds on the number of minimal generators of SS in terms of the dimension of the face of Cm\mathcal C_m containing the point corresponding to SS.

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@article{arxiv.2309.07793,
  title  = {On faces of the Kunz cone and the numerical semigroups within them},
  author = {Levi Borevitz and Tara Gomes and Jiajie Ma and Harper Niergarth and Christopher O'Neill and Daniel Pocklington and Rosa Stolk and Jessica Wang and Shuhang Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07793},
  year   = {2023}
}