Frögoh"amosa conjecture on equality in Wilf's inequality

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Let Γ≠N\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,…,(q−1)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,q∈N∖{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.

References

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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