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Cyclotomic numerical semigroups
Given a numerical semigroup , we let be its semigroup polynomial. We study cyclotomic numerical semigroups;
these are numerical semigroups such that has all its roots
in the unit disc. We conjecture that is a cyclotomic numerical semigroup if
and only if is a complete intersection numerical semigroup and present some
evidence for it. Aside from the notion of cyclotomic numerical semigroup we
introduce the notion of cyclotomic exponents and polynomially related numerical
semigroups. We derive some properties and give some applications of these new
concepts.Comment: 17 pages, accepted for publication in SIAM J. Discrete Mat
On the distribution of sums of residues
We generalize and solve the \roman{mod}\,q analogue of a problem of
Littlewood and Offord, raised by Vaughan and Wooley, concerning the
distribution of the sums of the form ,
where each is or . For all , , we determine
the maximum, over all reduced residues and all sets consisting of
arbitrary residues, of the number of these sums that belong to .Comment: 5 page
Note on Ward-Horadam H(x) - binomials' recurrences and related interpretations, II
We deliver here second new recurrence formula,
were array is appointed by sequence of
functions which in predominantly considered cases where chosen to be
polynomials . Secondly, we supply a review of selected related combinatorial
interpretations of generalized binomial coefficients. We then propose also a
kind of transfer of interpretation of coefficients onto
coefficients interpretations thus bringing us back to
and Donald Ervin Knuth relevant investigation decades
ago.Comment: 57 pages, 8 figure
Practical numbers among the binomial coefficients
A practical number is a positive integer n such that every positive integer less than n can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of n. We prove that most of the binomial coefficients are practical numbers. Precisely, letting f(n) denote the number of binomial coefficients (nk), with 0≤k≤n, that are not practical numbers, we show that f(n
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