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An Optimal Lower Bound for the Frobenius Problem

Iskander Aliev, Peter Gruber

math.NTarXiv:math/0512083

Abstract

Given N positive integers a1, ..., aN with (a1, ..., aN)=1, let fN denote the largest natural number which is not a positive integer combination of a1, ..., aN. This paper gives an optimal lower bound for fN in terms of the absolute inhomogeneous minimum of the standard (N-1)-simplex.

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