On the Cohen-Macaulay property for quadratic tangent cones
Commutative Algebra
2016-08-10 v3 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
Let be an -generated numerical semigroup such that its tangent cone is defined by quadratic relations. We show that if then is Cohen-Macaulay, and for we explicitly describe the semigroups such that is not Cohen-Macaulay. As an application we show that if the field is algebraically closed and of characteristic different from two, and then is Koszul if and only if (possibly after a change of coordinates) its defining ideal has a quadratic Gr\"obner basis.
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@article{arxiv.1512.04893,
title = {On the Cohen-Macaulay property for quadratic tangent cones},
author = {Dumitru I. Stamate},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04893},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
21 pages; v2: minor edits, list of references updated; v3: added to Table 1 an example found by F. Strazzanti, and which is not in the published version