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On quotients of numerical semigroups for almost arithmetic progressions

Number Theory 2026-04-13 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let A\langle A\rangle be the numerical semigroup generated by relatively prime positive integers {a1,a2,...,an}\{a_1,a_2,...,a_n\}. The quotient of A\langle A\rangle with respect to a positive integer pp is defined by Ap={xNpxA}\frac{\langle A\rangle}{p}=\{x\in \mathbb{N} \mid px\in \langle A\rangle\}. The quotient Ap\frac{\langle A\rangle}{p} is known to be a semigroup but is hard to study. When pp is a positive divisor of a1a_1, we reduce the computation of the Ap\'ery set of a1p\frac{a_1}{p} in Ap\frac{\langle A\rangle}{p} to a simple minimization problem. This allow us to obtain closed formulas of the Frobenius number of the quotient for some special numerical semigroups. These includes the cases when A\langle A\rangle is the almost arithmetic progressions, the almost arithmetic progressions with initial gaps, etc. In particular, we partially solve an open problem proposed by A. Adeniran et al.

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@article{arxiv.2312.06096,
  title  = {On quotients of numerical semigroups for almost arithmetic progressions},
  author = {Feihu Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06096},
  year   = {2026}
}
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