Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6414925 Journal of Algebra 2013 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

We solve a problem of Komeda concerning the proportion of numerical semigroups which do not satisfy Buchweitzʼ necessary criterion for a semigroup to occur as the Weierstrass semigroup of a point on an algebraic curve. A result of Eisenbud and Harris gives a sufficient condition for a semigroup to occur as a Weierstrass semigroup. We show that the family of semigroups satisfying this condition has density zero 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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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory
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