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The Proportion of Weierstrass Semigroups

Combinatorics 2017-06-13 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We solve a problem of Komeda concerning the proportion of numerical semigroups which do not satisfy Buchweitz' necessary criterion for a semigroup to occur as the Weierstrass semigroup of a point on an algebraic curve. We also show that the family of semigroups known to be Weierstrass semigroups using a result of Eisenbud and Harris, has zero density in the set of all semigroups. In the process, we prove several more general results about the structure of a typical numerical semigroup.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6331,
  title  = {The Proportion of Weierstrass Semigroups},
  author = {Nathan Kaplan and Lynnelle Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6331},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages. Corrected typos, some minors mathematical changes, added some discussion. To appear in J. Algebra

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