The lonely element conjecture for numerical semigroups
Let be a numerical semigroup, and call a nonzero small element of lonely if it has the property specified in the source. Lonely element conjecture. If every nonzero small element of is lonely, then is dimension- realizable, equivalently, its matricial dimension is at most . The paper states that this conjecture is disproved by a counterexample; the converse is known from earlier work.
References
Primary source
Arsh Chhabra and Stephan Ramon Garcia, “Numerical semigroups from rational matrices III: semigroups of matricial dimension two and a counterexample to the lonely element conjecture”, arXiv:2506.11554 (2025).
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