We show that the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture holds for seminormal simplicial affine semigroup rings. Moreover we prove an upper bound for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity in terms of the dimension, which is similar as in the normal case. Finally we compute explicitly the regularity of full Veronese rings.

We provide a bound on the Θ-regularity of an arbitrary reduced and irreducible curve embedded in a polarized abelian variety in terms of its degree and codimension. This is an “abelian” version of Gruson–Lazarsfeld–Peskine’s bound on the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of a non-degenerate curve embedded in a projective space. As an application, we provide a Castelnuovo type bound for the genus o...