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The Koszul property in affine semigroup rings

Jürgen Herzog, Vic Reiner and Volkmar Welker

Vol. 186 (1998), No. 1, 39–65
Abstract

We investigate the Koszul property for quotients of affine semigroup rings by semigroup ideals. Using a combinatorial and topological interpretation for the Koszul property in this context, we recover known results asserting that certain of these rings are Koszul. In the process, we prove a stronger fact, suggesting a more general definition of Koszul rings, already considered by Fröberg. This more general definition of Koszulness turns out to be satisfied by all Cohen-Macaulay rings of minimal multiplicity.

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Received: 17 April 1997
Revised: 20 August 1997
Published: 1 November 1998
Authors
Jürgen Herzog
Universität GH-Essen
45117 Essen, Germany
Vic Reiner
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Volkmar Welker
TU-Berlin
10623 Berlin, Germany