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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

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

In this paper, it is proved that there is an arithmetic progression of positive integers such that each of which is expressible neither as $p+F_m$ nor as $q+L_n$, where $ p,q $ are primes, $ F_m $ denotes the $ m $-th Fibonacci number and $…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Rui-Jing Wang

Let s and k be integers with s \geq 2 and k \geq 2. Let g_k^{(s)}(n) denote the cardinality of the largest subset of the set {1,2,..., n} that contains no geometric progression of length k whose common ratio is a power of s. Let r_k(\ell)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Melvyn B. Nathanson , Kevin O'Bryant

Let $f_{s,k}(n)$ be the maximum possible number of $s$-term arithmetic progressions in a sequence $a_1<a_2<\ldots<a_n$ of $n$ integers which contains no $k$-term arithmetic progression. For all integers $k > s \geq 3$, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Jacob Fox , Cosmin Pohoata

We give upper and lower bounds for the largest integer not representable as positive linear combination of three given integers, disproving an upper bound conjectured by Beck, Einstein and Zacks.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-10 Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta

A geometric progression of length $k$ and integer ratio is a set of numbers of the form $\{a,ar,\dots,ar^{k-1}\}$ for some positive real number $a$ and integer $r\geq 2$. For each integer $k \geq 3$, a greedy algorithm is used to construct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Melvyn B. Nathanson , Kevin O'Bryant

We give an explicit formula for the $p$-Frobenius number of triples associated with Diophantine equations $x^2+y^2=z^r$, that is, the largest positive integer that can only be represented in $p$ ways by combining the three integers of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Takao Komatsu , Neha Gupta , Manoj Upreti

Let $a_k(n)$ denotes the number of representations of a non-negative integer $n$ as sum of $k$ quadratic forms of the type $x^2+xy+y^2$ and $a_{\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\lambda_3\dots\lambda_k}(n)$ denotes the number of representations $n$ as a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Kritika Kashyap

We study enumeration functions for unimodal sequences of positive integers, where the size of a sequence is the sum of its terms. We survey known results for a number of natural variants of unimodal sequences, including Auluck's generalized…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Kathrin Bringmann , Karl Mahlburg

Let a tribonacci sequence be a sequence of integers satisfying $a_k=a_{k-1}+a_{k-2}+a_{k-3}$ for all $k\ge 4$. For any positive integers $k$ and $n$, denote by $f_k(n)$ the number of tribonacci sequences with $a_1, a_2, a_3>0$ and with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Luke Pebody

Let $n$ be a positive integer greater than $2$. We define \textit{the Proth numerical semigroup}, $P_{k}(n)$, generated by $\{k 2^{n+i}+1 \,\mid\, i \in \mathbb{N}\}$, where $k$ is an odd positive number and $k < 2^{n}$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Pranjal Srivastava , Dhara Thakkar

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 introduce the Frobenius problem for numerical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Kyunghwan Song

Consider a sequence of positive integers of the form $ca^n-d$, $n\geq 1$, where $a, c$ and $d$ are positive integers, $a>1$. For each $n\geq 1$, let $S_n$ be the submonoid of $\mathbb N$ generated by $\mathbf s_j=ca^{n+j}-d$, with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Fabián Arias , Jerson Borja

For an integer $b\geq 2$, we call a positive integer $b$-anti-Niven if it is relatively prime to the sum of the digits in its base-$b$ representation. In this article, we investigate the maximum lengths of arithmetic progressions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ryan Blau , Joshua Harrington , Sarah Lohrey , Eliel Sosis , Tony W. H. Wong

If $a$ and $b$ are integers with $b>a>1$, we completely characterize ``long'' arithmetic progressions in the sumsets of the geometric progressions $1, a, a^2, a^3, \ldots$ and $1, b, b^2, b^3, \ldots$. Our proofs utilize recent applications…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Michael A. Bennett

For a positive integer sequence $\boldsymbol{a}=(a_1, \dots, a_{N+1})$, Sylvester's denumerant $E(\boldsymbol{a}; t)$ counts the number of nonnegative integer solutions to $\sum_{i=1}^{N+1} a_i x_i = t$ for a nonnegative integer $t$. It has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Guoce Xin , Chen Zhang

We study the number of lattice points in integer dilates of the rational polytope $P = (x_1,...,x_n) \in \R_{\geq 0}^n : \sum_{k=1}^n x_k a_k \leq 1$, where $a_1,...,a_n$ are positive integers. This polytope is closely related to the linear…

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

Given three pairwise coprime positive integers $a_1,a_2,a_3 \in \mathbb{Z}^+$ we show the existence of a relation between the sets of the first elements of the three quotients $\frac{\langle a_i,a_j \rangle}{a_k}$ that can be made for every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Alessio Moscariello

We solve the enumeration of the set $\textrm{AP}(n)$ of partitions of a positive integer $n$ in which the nondecreasing sequence of parts forms an arithmetic progression. In particular, we establish a formula for the number of nondecreasing…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-13 F. Javier de Vega