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arxiv: 1408.5331 · v3 · pith:JNL2O3Q6new · submitted 2014-08-22 · 🧮 math.NT · math.AC· math.CO

On a conjecture of Wilf about the Frobenius number

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Given coprime positive integers $a_1 < ...< a_d$, the Frobenius number $F$ is the largest integer which is not representable as a non-negative integer combination of the $a_i$. Let $g$ denote the number of all non-representable positive integers: Wilf conjectured that $d \geq \frac{F+1}{F+1-g}$. We prove that for every fixed value of $\lceil \frac{a_1}{d} \rceil$ the conjecture holds for all values of $a_1$ which are sufficiently large and are not divisible by a finite set of primes. We also propose a generalization in the context of one-dimensional local rings and a question on the equality $d = \frac{F+1}{F+1-g}$.

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