Join of affine semigroups.

In this paper, we study the class of affine semigroups generated by integral vectors, whose components are in generalized arithmetic progression and we observe that the defining ideal is determinantal. We also give a sufficient condition on the defining ideal of the semigroup ring for the equality of the Betti numbers of the defining ideal and those of its initial ideal. We introduce the notion of an affine semigroup generated by join of two affine semigroups and show that it preserves some nice properties, including Cohen-Macaulayness, when the constituent semigroups have those properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]