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One of the oldest results in semigroup theory embeds cancellative commutative semigroups into abelian groups, by a construction which also completes ℕ into ℤ and embeds integral domains into fields.
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Grillet, P.A. (2001). Cancellative Semigroups. In: Commutative Semigroups. Advances in Mathematics, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3389-1_2
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