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Ap\'ery sets of shifted numerical monoids

Commutative Algebra 2018-08-15 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A numerical monoid is an additive submonoid of the non-negative integers. Given a numerical monoid SS, consider the family of "shifted" monoids MnM_n obtained by adding nn to each generator of SS. In this paper, we characterize the Ap\'ery set of MnM_n in terms of the Ap\'ery set of the base monoid SS when nn is sufficiently large. We give a highly efficient algorithm for computing the Ap\'ery set of MnM_n in this case, and prove that several numerical monoid invariants, such as the genus and Frobenius number, are eventually quasipolynomial as a function of nn.

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@article{arxiv.1708.09527,
  title  = {Ap\'ery sets of shifted numerical monoids},
  author = {Christopher O'Neill and Roberto Pelayo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09527},
  year   = {2018}
}