On free subsemigroups

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Let S be a cancellative semigroup and for a,b\(\in S\) let \(<a,b>\) be the subsemigroup of S generated by a,b. Then \(<a,b>\) is free or \(a<a,b>\cap b<a,b>\neq \emptyset.\) Several interesting consequences of this result are addressed in the paper.











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