© 2002 by London Mathematical Society
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Systems of Inequalities and Numerical Semigroups
Departamento de Álgebra, Universidad de Granada E-18071 Granada, Spain, jrosales{at}ugr.es
Departamento de Álgebra, Universidad de Granada E-18071 Granada, Spain, pedro{at}ugr.es
Departamento de Álgebra, Universidad de Granada E-18071 Granada, Spain, jigg{at}ugr.es
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Évora 7000 Évora, Portugal, mbb{at}dmat.uevora.pt
Received 15 March 2001. Revision received 26 July 2001.
A one-to-one correspondence is described between the set S(m) of numerical semigroups with multiplicity m and the set of non-negative integer solutions of a system of linear Diophantine inequalities. This correspondence infers in S(m) a semigroup structure and the resulting semigroup is isomorphic to a subsemigroup of Nm1. Finally, this result is particularized to the symmetric case.