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Graver bases of shifted numerical semigroups with 3 generators

Commutative Algebra 2022-12-13 v2

Abstract

A numerical semigroup MM is a subset of the non-negative integers that is closed under addition. A factorization of nMn \in M is an expression of nn as a sum of generators of MM, and the Graver basis of MM is a collection Gr(Mt)Gr(M_t) of trades between the generators of MM that allows for efficient movement between factorizations. Given positive integers r1,,rkr_1, \ldots, r_k, consider the family Mt=t+r1,,t+rkM_t = \langle t + r_1, \ldots, t + r_k\rangle of "shifted" numerical semigroups whose generators are obtained by translating r1,,rkr_1, \ldots, r_k by an integer parameter tt. In this paper, we characterize the Graver basis Gr(Mt)Gr(M_t) of MtM_t for sufficiently large tt in the case k=3k = 3, in the form of a recursive construction of Gr(Mt)Gr(M_t) from that of smaller values of tt. As a consequence of our result, the number of trades in Gr(Mt)Gr(M_t), when viewed as a function of tt, is eventually quasilinear. We also obtain a sharp lower bound on the start of quasilinear behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02373,
  title  = {Graver bases of shifted numerical semigroups with 3 generators},
  author = {James Howard and Christopher O'Neill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02373},
  year   = {2022}
}