On quotients of numerical semigroups for almost arithmetic progressions
Number Theory
2026-04-13 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be the numerical semigroup generated by relatively prime positive integers . The quotient of with respect to a positive integer is defined by . The quotient is known to be a semigroup but is hard to study. When is a positive divisor of , we reduce the computation of the Ap\'ery set of in 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 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}
}