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 on integers. They also posed the question of decidability of the Diophantine problem over the structure , 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