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An Effective Lower Bound for Group Complexity of Finite Semigroups and Automata

Group Theory 2008-12-19 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The question of computing the group complexity of finite semigroups and automata was first posed in K. Krohn and J. Rhodes, \textit{Complexity of finite semigroups}, Annals of Mathematics (2) \textbf{88} (1968), 128--160, motivated by the Prime Decomposition Theorem of K. Krohn and J. Rhodes, \textit{Algebraic theory of machines, {I}: {P}rime decomposition theorem for finite semigroups and machines}, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society \textbf{116} (1965), 450--464. Here we provide an effective lower bound for group complexity.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3499,
  title  = {An Effective Lower Bound for Group Complexity of Finite Semigroups and Automata},
  author = {Karsten Henckell and John Rhodes and Benjamin Steinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3499},
  year   = {2008}
}