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On the Cohen-Macaulay property for quadratic tangent cones

Commutative Algebra 2016-08-10 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let HH be an nn-generated numerical semigroup such that its tangent cone grmK[H]\operatorname{gr}_\mathfrak{m} K[H] is defined by quadratic relations. We show that if n<5n<5 then grmK[H]\operatorname{gr}_\mathfrak{m} K[H] is Cohen-Macaulay, and for n=5n=5 we explicitly describe the semigroups HH such that grmK[H]\operatorname{gr}_\mathfrak{m} K[H] is not Cohen-Macaulay. As an application we show that if the field KK is algebraically closed and of characteristic different from two, and n5n\leq 5 then grmK[H]\operatorname{gr}_\mathfrak{m} K[H] 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