Frobenius Coin-Exchange Generating Functions
Abstract
We study variants of the \emph{Frobenius coin-exchange problem}: given positive relatively prime parameters, what is the largest integer that cannot be represented as a nonnegative integral linear combination of the given integers? This problem and its siblings can be understood through generating functions with 0/1 coefficients according to whether or not an integer is representable. In the 2-parameter case, this generating function has an elegant closed form, from which many corollaries follow, including a formula for the Frobenius problem. We establish a similar closed form for the generating function indicating all integers with exactly representations, with similar wide-ranging corollaries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.00554,
title = {Frobenius Coin-Exchange Generating Functions},
author = {Leonardo Bardomero and Matthias Beck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00554},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in Amer. Math. Monthly