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Generating functions for the quotients of numerical semigroups

Combinatorics 2024-11-27 v2

Abstract

We propose a class of generating functions denoted by RGFp(x)\textrm{RGF}_p(x), which is related to the Sylvester denumerant for the quotients of numerical semigroups. Using MacMahon's partition analysis, we can obtain RGFp(x)\textrm{RGF}_p(x) by extracting the constant term of a rational function. We use RGFp(x)\textrm{RGF}_p(x) to give a system of generators of the quotient of the numerical semigroup a1,a2,a3\langle a_1,a_2,a_3\rangle by pp for a small positive integer pp and we characterise the generators for Ap\frac{\langle A\rangle}{p} for a general numerical semigroup AA and any positive integer pp.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10889,
  title  = {Generating functions for the quotients of numerical semigroups},
  author = {Feihu Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10889},
  year   = {2024}
}
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