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On the Diophantine problem related to power circuits

Logic 2026-04-08 v4 Group Theory Number Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Myasnikov, Ushakov, and Won introduced power circuits in 2012 to construct a polynomial-time algorithm for the word problem in the Baumslag group, which has a non-elementary Dehn function. Power circuits are computational structures that support addition and the operation (x,y)x2y(x,y) \mapsto x \cdot 2^y on integers. They also posed the question of decidability of the Diophantine problem over the structure N>0;+,x2y,,1\langle \mathbb{N}_{>0}; +, x \cdot 2^y, \leq, 1 \rangle, which is closely related to power circuits. In this paper, we prove that the Diophantine problem over this structure is undecidable.

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@article{arxiv.2601.00835,
  title  = {On the Diophantine problem related to power circuits},
  author = {Alexander Rybalov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00835},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Published in the journal of Groups, Complexity, Cryptology

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