Kohl, Florian; Li, Yanxi; Rauh, Johannes; Yoshida, Ruriko Semigroups – a computational approach. (English) Zbl 1437.11166 Hibi, Takayuki (ed.), The 50th anniversary of Gröbner bases. Proceedings of the 8th Mathematical Society of Japan-Seasonal Institute (MSJ-SI 2015), Osaka, Japan, July 1–10, 2015. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ). Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 77, 155-170 (2018). Summary: The question whether there exists an integral solution to the system of linear equations with non-negative constraints, \(A\mathbf x = \mathbf b, \, \mathbf x \ge 0\), where \(A \in \mathbb Z^{m\times n}\) and \(\mathbf b \in \mathbb Z^m\), finds its applications in many areas, such as operation research, number theory and statistics. In order to solve this problem, we have to understand the semigroup generated by the columns of the matrix A and the structure of the “holes” which are the difference between the semigroup generated by the columns of the matrix A and its saturation. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of an algorithm by Hemmecke, Takemura, and Yoshida that computes the set of holes of a semigroup and we discuss applications to problems in combinatorics. Moreover, we compute the set of holes for the common diagonal effect model, and we show that the \(n\)th linear ordering polytope has the integer-decomposition property for \(n\geq 7\). The software is available at http://ehrhart.math.fu-berlin.de/People/fkohl/HASE/.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1404.13003]. Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 11Y50 Computer solution of Diophantine equations 11D04 Linear Diophantine equations 11P21 Lattice points in specified regions 52B11 \(n\)-dimensional polytopes 90C08 Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) Keywords:feasibility problem; lattice points; polytopes; software Software:lp_solve; 4ti2; Macaulay2; HASE; Normaliz PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{F. Kohl} et al., Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 77, 155--170 (2018; Zbl 1437.11166) Full Text: arXiv