Some contributions to the Frobenius’ Problem
F. Aguil´ o-Gost
1,2
Dept. Matem` atica Aplicada IV
Universitat Polit` ecnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
A. Miralles
1,3
Dept. Matem` atica Aplicada IV
Universitat Polit` ecnica de Catalunya
Castelldefels, Spain
M. Zaragoz´ a
1,4
Dept. Matem` atica Aplicada IV
Universitat Polit` ecnica de Catalunya
Vilanova i la Geltr´ u, Spain
Abstract
Given a set A = {a
1
, ..., a
k
} with 1 ≤ a
1
< ... < a
k
and gcd(a
1
, ..., a
k
) = 1, let us
denote
R(A)= {m ∈ N|∃λ
1
, ..., λ
k
∈ N : m =
k
i=1
λ
i
a
i
}
and R(A)= N \R(A). The classical study of the Frobenius’ Problem for a given set
A is the computation of the number f (A) = max R(A) (also called the Frobenius
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 28 (2007) 61–68
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