Fel's Conjecture on Syzygies of Numerical Semigroups
Combinatorics
2026-02-04 v1 Commutative Algebra
Number Theory
Abstract
Let be a numerical semigroup and its semigroup ring. The Hilbert numerator of determines normalized alternating syzygy power sums encoding alternating power sums of syzygy degrees. Fel conjectured an explicit formula for , for all , in terms of the gap power sums and universal symmetric polynomials evaluated at the generator power sums (and ). We prove Fel's conjecture via exponential generating functions and coefficient extraction, solating the universal identities for needed for the derivation. The argument is fully formalized in Lean/Mathlib, and was produced automatically by AxiomProver from a natural-language statement of the conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.03716,
title = {Fel's Conjecture on Syzygies of Numerical Semigroups},
author = {Evan Chen and Chris Cummins and GSM and Dejan Grubisic and Leopold Haller and Letong Hong and Andranik Kurghinyan and Kenny Lau and Hugh Leather and Seewoo Lee and Aram Markosyan and Ken Ono and Manooshree Patel and Gaurang Pendharkar and Vedant Rathi and Alex Schneidman and Volker Seeker and Shubho Sengupta and Ishan Sinha and Jimmy Xin and Jujian Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03716},
year = {2026}
}