Commutative algebra of generalised Frobenius numbers

Manjunath, Madhusudan; Smith, Ben

doi:10.5802/alco.31

Manjunath, Madhusudan; Smith, Ben

Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 2 (2019) no. 1, pp. 149-171.

Abstract

We study commutative algebra arising from generalised Frobenius numbers. The $k$ -th (generalised) Frobenius number of relatively prime natural numbers $(a_{1}, \dots, a_{n})$ is the largest natural number that cannot be written as a non-negative integral combination of $(a_{1}, \dots, a_{n})$ in $k$ distinct ways. Suppose that $L$ is the lattice of integer points of ${(a_{1}, \dots, a_{n})}^{⊥}$ . Taking our cue from the concept of lattice modules due to Bayer and Sturmfels, we define generalised lattice modules $M_{L}^{(k)}$ whose Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity captures the $k$ -th Frobenius number of $(a_{1}, \dots, a_{n})$ . We study the sequence ${M_{L}^{(k)}}_{k = 1}^{\infty}$ of generalised lattice modules providing an explicit characterisation of their minimal generators. We show that there are only finitely many isomorphism classes of generalised lattice modules. As a consequence of our commutative algebraic approach, we show that the sequence of generalised Frobenius numbers forms a finite difference progression i.e. a sequence whose set of successive differences is finite. We also construct an algorithm to compute the $k$ -th Frobenius number.

Received: 2018-07-03
Accepted: 2018-07-04
Published online: 2019-02-04

MR 3912171 | Zbl 07024222

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5802/alco.31
Classification: 11D07, 13D02, 52C07, 06A07
Keywords: Frobenius number, syzygy, lattice, poset, Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity

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Manjunath, Madhusudan; Smith, Ben. Commutative algebra of generalised Frobenius numbers. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 2 (2019) no. 1, pp. 149-171. doi : 10.5802/alco.31. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/item/ALCO_2019__2_1_149_0/

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