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A Shrinking Lemma for Indexed Languages

Group Theory 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

This article presents a combinatorial result on indexed languages which was inspired by an attempt to understand the structure of groups with indexed language word problem. We show that a sufficiently long word in an indexed language can be written as a product of a uniformly bounded number of terms in such a way that some proper subproduct belongs to the language.

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@article{arxiv.math/9509205,
  title  = {A Shrinking Lemma for Indexed Languages},
  author = {Robert Gilman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9509205},
  year   = {2009}
}

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DVI file, 6 pages