Determining whether an arbitrary subring [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is a normal or Cohen-Macaulay domain is, in general, a nontrivial problem, even in the special case of a monomial generated domain. We provide a complete characterization of the normality, normalizations, and Serre’s [Formula: see text] condition for quadratic-monomial generated domains. For a quadratic-monomial generated domain [Formula: see text], we develop a combinatorial structure that assigns, to each quadratic monomial of the ring, an edge in a mixed signed, directed graph [Formula: see text], i.e. a graph with signed edges and directed edges. We classify the normality and the normalizations of such rings in terms of a generalization of the combinatorial odd cycle condition on [Formula: see text]. We also generalize and simplify a combinatorial classification of Serre’s [Formula: see text] condition for such rings and construct non-Cohen–Macaulay rings.
A combinatorial classification of 2-regular simple modules for Nakayama algebras
