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The (Nested) Word Problem

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2014-10-28 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

In this article we provide a new perspective on the word problem of a group by using languages of nested words. These were introduced by Alur and Madhusudan as a way to model programming languages such as HTML. We demonstrate how a class of nested word languages called visibly pushdown can be used to study the word problem of virtually free groups in a natural way.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6283,
  title  = {The (Nested) Word Problem},
  author = {Christopher S. Henry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6283},
  year   = {2014}
}

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