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On Reachability Problems for Low-Dimensional Matrix Semigroups

Computational Complexity 2019-04-30 v3 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We consider the Membership and the Half-Space Reachability problems for matrices in dimensions two and three. Our first main result is that the Membership Problem is decidable for finitely generated sub-semigroups of the Heisenberg group over rational numbers. Furthermore, we prove two decidability results for the Half-Space Reachability Problem. Namely, we show that this problem is decidable for sub-semigroups of GL(2,Z)\mathrm{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z}) and of the Heisenberg group over rational numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1902.09597,
  title  = {On Reachability Problems for Low-Dimensional Matrix Semigroups},
  author = {Thomas Colcombet and Joël Ouaknine and Pavel Semukhin and James Worrell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.09597},
  year   = {2019}
}

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