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<div class="ChapSects"><a href="chap1_mj.html#X7DFB63A97E67C0A1">1 <span class="Heading">Introduction</span></a>
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<h3>1 <span class="Heading">Introduction</span></h3>

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<h4>1.1 <span class="Heading">What is the purpose of the this package?</span></h4>

<p>Normaliz <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBnormaliz">[BIRS18]</a> is a software for computations with rational cones and affine monoids. It pursues two main computational goals: finding the Hilbert basis, a minimal generating system of the monoid of lattice points of a cone; and counting elements degree-wise in a generating function, the Hilbert series. As a recent extension, Normaliz can handle unbounded polyhedra. The Hilbert basis computation can be considered as solving a linear diophantine system of inhomogeneous equations, inequalities and congruences.</p>

<p>This package encapsulates a libnormaliz cone and gives access to it in the <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong> environment. In this way <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong> can be used as interactive interface to libnormaliz.</p>


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