Let πββ be a numerical semigroup with multiplicity π=minβ‘(πβ{0}) and conductor π=maxβ‘(β€βπ)+1. Let P be the set of primitive elements, i.e. minimal generators, of S, and let L be the set of elements of S which are smaller than c. Wilf's conjecture (1978) states that the inequality |π|β’|πΏ|β₯π must hold. The conjecture has been shown to hold in case |π|β₯π/2 by Sammartano in 2012, and subsequently in case |π|β₯π/3 by the author in 2020. The main result in this paper is that Wilf's conjecture holds in case |π|β₯π/4 when m divides c. The proof uses divsets X, i.e. finite divisor-closed sets of monomials, as abstract models of numerical semigroups, and proceeds with estimates of the vertex-maximal matching number of the associated graph πΊβ‘(π).
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