Abstract
We address the problem of classifying complete $$\mathbb {C}$$
C
-subalgebras of $$\mathbb {C}[[t]]$$
C
[
[
t
]
]
. A discrete invariant for this classification problem is the semigroup of orders of the elements in a given $$\mathbb {C}$$
C
-subalgebra. Hence we can define the space $$\mathcal {R}_{\Gamma }$$
R
Γ
of all $$\mathbb {C}$$
C
-subalgebras of $$\mathbb {C}[[t]]$$
C
[
[
t
]
]
with semigroup $$\Gamma $$
Γ
. After relating this space to the Zariski moduli space of curve singularities and to a moduli space of global singular curves, we prove that $$\mathcal {R}_{\Gamma }$$
R
Γ
is an affine variety by describing its defining equations in an ambient affine space in terms of an explicit algorithm. Moreover, we identify certain types of semigroups $$\Gamma $$
Γ
for which $$\mathcal {R}_{\Gamma }$$
R
Γ
is always an affine space, and for general $$\Gamma $$
Γ
we describe the stratification of $$\mathcal {R}_{\Gamma }$$
R
Γ
by embedding dimension. We also describe the natural map from $$\mathcal {R}_{\Gamma }$$
R
Γ
to the Zariski moduli space in some special cases. Explicit examples are provided throughout.