A characterization of some families of Cohen--Macaulay, Gorenstein and/or Buchsbaum rings

We provide algorithmic methods to check the Cohen--Macaulayness, Buchsbaumness and/or Gorensteiness of some families of semigroup rings that are constructed from the dilation of bounded convex polyhedrons of $\R^3_{\geq}$. Some families of semigroup rings are given satifying these properties

Union of Sets of Lengths of Numerical Semigroups

Let S = be a numerical semigroup, let s is an element of S and let Z(s) be its set of factorizations. The set of lengths is denoted by L(s) = {L(x(1), ... , x(p)) vertical bar (x(1), ... , x(p)) is an element of Z(s)}, where L(x(1), ... , x(p)) = x(1) + ... + x(p). The following sets can then be defined: W(n) = {s is an element of S vertical bar there exists x is an element of Z(s) such that L(x) = n}, nu(n) = boolean OR(s is an element of W(n)) L(s) = {l(1) P(N) is almost periodic with period lcm(a(1), a(p))

An extension of Wilf's conjecture to affine semigroups

Producción CientíficaLet C ⊂ Qp be a rational cone. An affine semigroup S ⊂ C is a C-semigroup whenever (C \ S) ∩ Np has only a finite number of elements. In this work, we study the tree of C-semigroups, give a method to generate it and study their subsemigroups with minimal embedding dimension. We extend Wilf’s conjecture for numerical semigroups to C- semigroups and give some families of C-semigroups fulfilling the extended conjecture. We also check that other conjectures on numerical semigroups seem to be also satisfied by C-semigroups

The Buchweitz Set of a Numerical Semigroup

Let A subset of Z be a finite subset. We denote by B(A) the set of all integers n >= 2 such that |nA|>(2n-1)(|A|-1), where nA=A+middotmiddotmiddot+A denotes the n-fold sumset of A. The motivation to consider B(A)stems from Buchweitz's discovery in 1980 that if a numerical semigroup S subset of N is a Weierstrass semigroup, then B(N\S)= empty set . By constructing instances where this condition fails, Buchweitz disproved a longstanding conjecture by Hurwitz (Math Ann 41:403-442, 1893). In this paper, we prove that for any numerical semigroup S subset of N of genus g >= 2, the set B(N\S) is finite, of unbounded cardinality as S varies

On reducible non-Weierstrass semigroups

Weierstrass semigroups are well known along the literature. We present a new family of non- Weierstrass semigroups which can be written as an intersection of Weierstrass semigroups. In addition, we provide methods for computing non-Weierstrass semigroups with genus as large as desired.Funding information: Part of this paper was written during a visit of Fernando Torres to the Universidad de Cadiz (Spain) ; his visit was partially supported by Ayudas para Estancias Cortas de Investigadores (EST2018-R0, Programa de Fomento e Impulso de la Investigacion y la Transferencia en la Universidad de Cadiz) . Fernando Torres was partially supported by CNPq/Brazil (Grant 310623/2017-0) . Juan Ignacio Garcia-Garcia, Daniel Marin-Aragon, and Alberto Vigneron-Tenorio were partially supported by Junta de Andalucia research groups FQM-343 and FQM-366, and by the project MTM2017-84890-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE)

Characterizing affine C-semigroups

Let C subset of N-p be a finitely generated integer cone and S subset of C be an affine semigroup such that the real cones generated by C and by S are equal. The semigroup S is called C-semigroup if C \ S is a finite set. In this paper, we characterize the C-semigroups from their minimal generating sets, and we give an algorithm to check if S is a C-semigroup and to compute its set of gaps. We also study the embedding dimension of C-semigroups obtaining a lower bound for it, and introduce some families of C-semigroups whose embedding dimension reaches our bound. In the last section, we present a method to obtain a decomposition of a C-semigroup into irreducible C-semigroups.The authors thank the referees for their helpful observations. The authors were partially supported by Junta de Andalucia research group FQM-366. The first author was supported by the Programa Operativo de Empleo Juvenil 2014-2020, financed by the European Social Fund within the Youth Guarantee initiative. The second, third and fourth authors were partially supported by the project MTM2017-84890-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE), and the fourth author was partially supported by the project MTM2015-65764-C3-1-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE)

Semigroups with fixed multiplicity and embedding dimension

Given m is an element of N, a numerical semigroup with multiplicity m is called a packed numerical semigroup if its minimal generating set is included in {m, m + 1 , ..., 2m - 1}. In this work, packed numerical semigroups are used to build the set of numerical semigroups with a given multiplicity and embedding dimension, and to create a partition of this set. Wilf's conjecture is verified in the tree associated to some packed numerical semigroups. Furthermore, given two positive integers m and e, some algorithms for computing the minimal Frobenius number and minimal genus of the set of numerical semigroups with multiplicity m and embedding dimension e are provided. We also compute the semigroups where these minimal values are achieved

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV : mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median z ~ 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between z ~ 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July