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The Betti Numbers of Kunz-Waldi Semigroups

Commutative Algebra 2025-08-07 v2

Abstract

Given two coprime numbers p<qp<q, KW semigroups contain p,qp,q and are contained in p,q,r\langle p,q,r \rangle where 2r=p,q,p+q2r= p,q, p+q whichever is even. These semigroups were first introduced by Kunz and Waldi. Kunz and Waldi proved that all KWKW semigroups of embedding dimension n4n\geq 4 have Cohen-Macaulay type n1n-1 and first Betti number (n2){n \choose 2}. In this paper, we characterize KW semigroups whose defining ideal is generated by the 2×22\times 2 minors of a 2×n2\times n matrix. In addition, we identify all KW semigroups that lie on the interior of the same face of the Kunz cone Cp\mathcal C_p as a KW semigroup with determinantal defining ideal. Thus, we provide an explicit formula for the Betti numbers of all those KW semigroups.

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@article{arxiv.2503.16736,
  title  = {The Betti Numbers of Kunz-Waldi Semigroups},
  author = {Mario González-Sánchez and Srishti Singh and Hema Srinivasan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16736},
  year   = {2025}
}