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On the existence of free subsemigroups in reversible automata semigroups

Group Theory 2018-11-13 v1

Abstract

We prove that the semigroup generated by a reversible Mealy automaton contains a free subsemigroup of rank two if and only if it contains an element of infinite order.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04679,
  title  = {On the existence of free subsemigroups in reversible automata semigroups},
  author = {Dominik Francoeur and Ivan Mitrofanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04679},
  year   = {2018}
}

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23 pages, 3 figures