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We study a generalization of the \emph{Frobenius problem}: given $k$ positive relatively prime integers, what is the largest integer $g_0$ that cannot be represented as a nonnegative integral linear combination of these parameters? More…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-07 Matthias Beck , Curtis Kifer

Let $A=(a_1, a_2, ..., a_n)$ be relative prime positive integers with $a_i\geq 2$. The Frobenius number $g(A)$ is the greatest integer not belonging to the set $\big\{ \sum_{i=1}^na_ix_i\ |x_i\in \mathbb{N}\big\}$. The general Frobenius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Feihu Liu , Guoce Xin

Given relative prime positive integers $A=(a_1, a_2, ..., a_n)$, the Frobenius number $g(A)$ is the largest integer not representable as a linear combination of the $a_i$'s with nonnegative integer coefficients. We find the ``Stable"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Feihu Liu , Guoce Xin , Suting Ye , Jingjing Yin

Let $N \geq 2$ and let $1 < a_1 < ... < a_N$ be relatively prime integers. The Frobenius number of this $N$-tuple is defined to be the largest positive integer that has no representation as $\sum_{i=1}^N a_i x_i$ where $x_1,...,x_N$ are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Lenny Fukshansky , Achill Schürmann

Let $A=(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n)$ be a sequence of relative prime positive integers with $a_i\geq 2$. The Frobenius number $F(A)$ is the largest integer not belonging to the numerical semigroup $\langle A\rangle$ generated by $A$. The genus…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Feihu Liu , Guoce Xin , Suting Ye , Jingjing Yin

A number $\alpha$ has a representation with respect to the numbers $\alpha_1,...,\alpha_n$, if there exist the non-negative integers $\lambda_1,... ,\lambda_n$ such that $\alpha=\lambda_1\alpha_1+...+\lambda_n \alpha_n$. The largest natural…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Abbas Taheri , Saeid Alikhani

For positive integers $a$, $b$, and $c$ which have no common divisor, the Frobenius number of $a$, $b$ and $c$ is defined to be the largest integer that cannot be expressed as a linear combination of $a$, $b$ and $c$ with non-negative…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Peter Suhajda , Anitha Thillaisundaram

Given coprime positive integers $a_1 < ...< a_d$, the Frobenius number $F$ is the largest integer which is not representable as a non-negative integer combination of the $a_i$. Let $g$ denote the number of all non-representable positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Alessio Moscariello , Alessio Sammartano

The greatest integer that does not belong to $S$ is the Frobenius number of $S$ and denoted by $F(S)$. To solve the Frobenius problem means the study to find $F(S)$. The Frobenius problem have treated steadily for a long time. In this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Kyunghwan Song

The classical Frobenius problem is to compute the largest number g not representable as a non-negative integer linear combination of non-negative integers x_1, x_2, ..., x_k, where gcd(x_1, x_2, ..., x_k) = 1. In this paper we consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-08-24 Jui-Yi Kao , Jeffrey Shallit , Zhi Xu

Let $A=(a_1, a_2, ..., a_n)$ be relative prime positive integers with $a_i\geq 2$. The Frobenius number $F(A)$ is the largest integer not belonging to the numerical semigroup $\langle A\rangle$ generated by $A$. The genus $g(A)$ is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Feihu Liu , Guoce Xin , Suting Ye , Jingjing Yin

Given coprime positive integers $g_1 < \ldots < g_e$, the Frobenius number $F=F(g_1,\ldots,g_e)$ is the largest integer not representable as a linear combination of $g_1,\ldots,g_e$ with non-negative integer coefficients. Let $n$ denote the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Marco D'Anna , Alessio Moscariello

The greatest integer that does not belong to a numerical semigroup $S$ is called the Frobenius number of $S$, and finding the Frobenius number is called the Frobenius problem. In this paper, we solve the Frobenius problem for the numerical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 WonTae Hwang , Kyunghwan Song

Given relatively prime integers $a_1, \dotsc, a_n$, the Frobenius number $g(a_1, \dotsc, a_n)$ is defined as the largest integer which cannot be expressed as $x_1 a_1 + \dotsb + x_n a_n$ with $x_i$ nonnegative integers. In this article, we…

Given positive integers $a_1,...,a_n$ with $\gcd(a_1,...,a_n) = 1$, we call an integer t representable if there exist nonnegative integers $m_1,...,m_n$ such that $t = m_1 a_1 + ... + m_n a_n$. In this paper, we discuss the linear…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Beck , Sinai Robins

The greatest integer that does not belong to a numerical semigroup S is called the Frobenius number of S, and finding the Frobenius number is called the Frobenius problem. In this paper, we solve the Frobenius problem for shifted square…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Kyunghwan Song

In this paper we study the (classical) Frobenius problem, namely the problem of finding the largest integer that cannot be represented as a nonnegative integral combination of given relatively prime (strictly) positive integers (known as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Aled Williams , Daiki Haijima

Let g_j denote the largest integer that is represented exactly j times as a non-negative integer linear combination of { x_1, ... , x_n. We show that for any k > 0, and n = 5, the quantity g_0 - g_k is unbounded. Furthermore, we provide…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Jeffrey Shallit , James Stankewicz

Given relatively prime positive integers a_1,...,a_n, the Frobenius number is the largest integer that cannot be written as a nonnegative integer combination of the a_i. We examine the parametric version of this problem: given a_i=a_i(t) as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Bjarke Hammersholt Roune , Kevin Woods

The famous linear diophantine problem of Frobenius is the problem to determine the largest integer (Frobenius number) whose number of representations in terms of $a_1,\dots,a_k$ is at most zero, that is not representable. In other words,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Takao Komatsu
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