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The complexity of a numerical semigroup

Number Theory 2022-02-03 v1

Abstract

Let SS and Δ\Delta be numerical semigroups. A numerical semigroup SS is an I(Δ)\mathbf{I}(\Delta)-{\it semigroup} if S\{0}S\backslash \{0\} is an ideal of Δ\Delta. We will denote by \mathcal{J}(\Delta)=\{S \mid S \text{ is an \mathbf{I}(\Delta)-semigroup} \}. We will say that Δ\Delta is {\it an ideal extension of } SS if SJ(Δ).S\in \mathcal{J}(\Delta). In this work, we present an algorithm that allows to build all the ideal extensions of a numerical semigroup. We can recursively denote by J0(N)=N,\mathcal{J}^0(\mathbb{N})=\mathbb{N}, J1(N)=J(N)\mathcal{J}^1(\mathbb{N})=\mathcal{J}(\mathbb{N}) and Jk+1(N)=J(Jk(N))\mathcal{J}^{k+1}(\mathbb{N})=\mathcal{J}(\mathcal{J}^{k}(\mathbb{N})) for all kN.k\in \mathbb{N}. The complexity of a numerical semigroup SS is the minimun of the set {kNSJk(N)}.\{k\in \mathbb{N}\mid S \in \mathcal{J}^k(\mathbb{N})\}. In addition, we will give an algorithm that allows us to compute all the numerical semigroups with fixed multiplicity and complexity.

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@article{arxiv.2202.00920,
  title  = {The complexity of a numerical semigroup},
  author = {J. I. García-García and M. A. Moreno-Frías and J. C. Rosales and A. Vigneron-Tenorio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00920},
  year   = {2022}
}
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