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On Symmetric But Not Cyclotomic Numerical Semigroups

Combinatorics 2017-07-07 v2

Abstract

A numerical semigroup is called cyclotomic if its corresponding numerical semigroup polynomial PS(x)=(1x)sSxsP_S(x)=(1-x)\sum_{s\in S}x^s is expressable as the product of cyclotomic polynomials. Ciolan, Garc\'ia-S\'anchez, and Moree conjectured that for every embedding dimension at least 44, there exists some numerical semigroup which is symmetric but not cyclotomic. We affirm this conjecture by giving an infinite class of numerical semigroup families Sn,tS_{n, t}, which for every fixed tt is symmetric but not cyclotomic when nmax(8(t+1)3,40(t+2))n\ge \max(8(t+1)^3,40(t+2)) and then verify through a finite case check that the numerical semigroup families Sn,0S_{n, 0}, and Sn,1S_{n, 1} yield acyclotomic numerical semigroups for every embedding dimension at least 44.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00782,
  title  = {On Symmetric But Not Cyclotomic Numerical Semigroups},
  author = {Mehtaab Sawhney and David Stoner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00782},
  year   = {2017}
}

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