Frögoh"amosa conjecture on equality in Wilf's inequality

Let ΓN\Gamma\neq\mathbb{N} be a numerical semigroup. Write c(Γ)c(\Gamma) for its conductor, e(Γ)e(\Gamma) for its embedding dimension, and δ(Γ)\delta(\Gamma) for its delta-invariant. For positive integers m,qm,q with m>1m>1, define

Wm,q:={0,m,2m,3m,,(q1)m,qm,qm+1,qm+2,}.W_{m,q}:=\{0,m,2m,3m,\ldots,(q-1)m,qm,qm+1,qm+2,\ldots\}.

Frögoh"amosa conjecture. The equality

c(Γ)=e(Γ)δ(Γ)c(\Gamma)=e(\Gamma)\cdot\delta(\Gamma)

holds if and only if Γ\Gamma has embedding dimension 22 or there exist m,qN{0}m,q\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{0\} with m>1m>1 such that Γ=Wm,q\Gamma=W_{m,q}.

The conjecture characterizes the numerical semigroups attaining equality in Wilf's inequality. The paper reports many known particular cases and presents the statement as open.

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Primary source

Patricio Almirón and Julio José Moyano-Fernández, “An extension of the Wilf conjecture to semimodules over a numerical semigroup”, arXiv:2012.01358 (2021).

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