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On Sylvester sums of compound sequence semigroup complements

Number Theory 2018-03-09 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the set NR(G)\textit{NR}(G) of natural numbers which are not in the numerical semigroup generated by a compound sequence GG. We generalize a result of Tuenter which completely characterizes NR(G)\textit{NR}(G). We use this result to compute Sylvester sums, and we give a direct application to the computation of weights of higher-order Weierstrass points on some families of complex algebraic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04766,
  title  = {On Sylvester sums of compound sequence semigroup complements},
  author = {Thomas A. Gassert and Caleb M. Shor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04766},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, revised, originally submitted for publication December '16

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