The Frobenius Problem for Modified Arithmetic Progressions
Amitabha Tripathi
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology
Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110016
India
Abstract:
For a set of positive and relative prime integers A,
let Γ(A) denote the
set of integers obtained by taking all nonnegative integer linear
combinations of integers in A. Then there are finitely many positive
integers that do not belong to Γ(A). For the modified arithmetic
progression A = {a, ha + d, ha + 2d, ... , ha + kd}, gcd(a, d) = 1, we
determine the largest integer g(A) that does not belong to
Γ(A), and the
number of integers n(A) that do not belong to
Γ(A). We also determine
the set of integers S*(A) that do not belong to Γ(A)
which, when added to
any positive integer in Γ(A), result in an integer in
Γ(A). Our results
generalize the corresponding results for arithmetic progressions.
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Received May 15 2013;
revised version received July 31 2013.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, August 1 2013.
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