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Numerical semigroups, cyclotomic polynomials and Bernoulli numbers

Number Theory 2020-08-27 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We give two proofs of a folkore result relating numerical semigroups of embedding dimension two and binary cyclotomic polynomials and explore some consequences. In particular, we give a more conceptual reproof of a result of Hong et al. (2012) on gaps between the exponents of non-zero monomials in a binary cyclotomic polynomial. The intent of the author with this expositional paper is to better unify the various results within the cyclotomic polynomial and numerical semigroup communities.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3972,
  title  = {Numerical semigroups, cyclotomic polynomials and Bernoulli numbers},
  author = {Pieter Moree},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3972},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 diagrams, expository paper to appear in American Mathematical Monthly, mathematical improvements in section on symmetric numerical semigroups, LLL-diagram material added, many minor changes

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