Maximal denumerant of a numerical semigroup with embedding dimension less than four.

DOI10.1216/JCA-2012-4-4-489zbMATH Open1270.20062arXiv1102.5518MaRDI QIDQ1947250FDOQ1947250

James Hamblin, Lenny Jones, Lance Bryant

Publication date: 22 April 2013

Published in: Journal of Commutative Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a numerical semigroup $S=<a_1,a_2,\mathrm{...},a_t>$ and $sinS$, we consider the factorization $s=c_1{a}_1+c_2{a}_2+\mathrm{...}+c_t{a}_t$ where $c_{i}ge0$. Such a factorization is {em maximal} if $c_1+c_2+\mathrm{...}+c_t$ is a maximum over all such factorizations of $s$. We show that the number of maximal factorizations, varying over the elements in $S$, is always bounded. Thus, we define $dx(S)$ to be the maximum number of maximal factorizations of elements in $S$. We study maximal factorizations in depth when $S$ has embedding dimension less than four, and establish formulas for $dx(S)$ in this case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5518

zbMATH Keywords

embedding dimensionnumerical semigroupsnumbers of factorizationsmaximal denumerantsmaximal length factorizationsmaximally reduced elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutative semigroups (20M14) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Divisibility and factorizations in commutative rings (13A05) Arithmetic theory of semigroups (20M13)

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