Bounds for syzygies of monomial curves.

Let \Gamma \subseteq \mathbb {N} be a numerical semigroup. In this paper, we prove an upper bound for the Betti numbers of the semigroup ring of \Gamma which depends only on the width of \Gamma, that is, the difference between the largest and the smallest generator of \Gamma. In this way, we make progress towards a conjecture of Herzog and Stamate [J. Algebra 418 (2014), pp. 8–28]. Moreover, for 4-generated numerical semigroups, the first significant open case, we prove the Herzog-Stamate bound for all but finitely many values of the width. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]