Minimal Graded Free Resolutions for Monomial Curves Defined by   Arithmetic Sequences
  Let $\mm=(m_0,...,m_n)$ be an arithmetic sequence, i.e., a sequence of integers $m_0<...<m_n$ with no common factor that minimally generate the numerical semigroup $\sum_{i=0}^{n}m_i\N$ and such that $m_i-m_{i-1}=m_{i+1}-m_i$ for all $i\in\{1,...,n-1\}$. The homogeneous coordinate ring $\Gamma_\mm$ of the affine monomial curve parametrically defined by $X_0=t^{m_0},...,X_n=t^{m_n}$ is a graded $R$-module where $R$ is the polynomial ring $k[X_0,...,X_n]$ with the grading obtained by setting $\deg{X_i}:=m_i$. In this paper, we construct an explicit minimal graded free resolution for $\Gamma_\mm$ and show that its Betti numbers depend only on the value of $m_0$ modulo $n$. As a consequence, we prove a conjecture of Herzog and Srinivasan on the eventual periodicity of the Betti numbers of semigroup rings under translation for the monomial curves defined by an arithmetic sequence. 
Philippe Gimenez, Indranath Sengupta, Hema Srinivasan
math.AC