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Let H be a pseudovariety of groups in which the kappa-word problem is decidable. Here, kappa denotes the canonical implicit signature, which consists of the multiplication and the (omega-1)-power. We prove that the kappa-word problem is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Célia Borlido

We investigate the orbits of automaton semigroups and groups to obtain algorithmic and structural results, both for general automata but also for some special subclasses. First, we show that a more general version of the finiteness problem…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Daniele D'Angeli , Dominik Francoeur , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter

In [ABM07], Abdulla et al. introduced the concept of decisiveness, an interesting tool for lifting good properties of finite Markov chains to denumerable ones. Later, this concept was extended to more general stochastic transition systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Mickael Randour , Cédric Rivière , Pierre Vandenhove

This paper continues the functional approach to the P-versus-NP problem, begun in [1]. Here we focus on the monoid RM_2^P of right-ideal morphisms of the free monoid, that have polynomial input balance and polynomial time-complexity. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-12 J. C. Birget

We prove that a semigroup generated by a reversible two-state Mealy automaton is either finite or free of rank 2. This fact leads to the decidability of finiteness for groups generated by two-state or two-letter invertible-reversible Mealy…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Ines Klimann

An integral of a group $G$ is a group $H$ whose commutator subgroup is isomorphic to $G$. In this paper, we prove that the integrability of a finite group is a decidable problem.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sathasivam Kalithasan , Viji Z. Thomas

It is known that if every group satisfying an identity of the form yx ~ xU(x,y)y is abelian, so is every semigroup that satisfies that identity. Because a group has an identity element and the cancellation property, it is easier to show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-12 Sherman Stein

We study the notion of irreducibility of semigroup morphisms. Given an alphabet $\Sigma$, a morphism $\varphi:\Sigma^+\rightarrow\Sigma^+$ is irreducible if any factorisation $\varphi=\psi_2\circ\psi_1$ can only be satisfied if $\psi_1$ or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Paul C. Bell , Eva Foster , Daniel Reidenbach

Let $\mathbb{N}^{d}$ be the $d$-dimensional monoid of non-negative integers. A generalized numerical semigroup is a submonoid $ S\subseteq \mathbb{N}^d$ such that $H(S)=\mathbb{N}^d \setminus S$ is a finite set. We introduce irreducible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Carmelo Cisto , Gioia Failla , Chris Peterson , Rosanna Utano

We give an analytical approach to the definition of additive and multiplicative free convolutions which is based on the theory of Nevanlinna and of Schur functions. We consider the set of probability distributions as a semigroup $\bold M$…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-10-12 G. Chistyakov , F. Götze

Computational problems concerning the orbit of a point under the action of a matrix group occur throughout computer science, including in program analysis, complexity theory, quantum computation, and automata theory. In many cases the focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rida Ait El Manssour , George Kenison , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Anton Varonka , James Worrell

The first part of the paper centers in the study of embeddability between partially commutative groups. In [KK], for a finite simplicial graph $\Gamma$, the authors introduce an infinite, locally infinite graph $\Gamma^e$, called the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Montserrat Casals-Ruiz

By the planarity rank of a semigroup variety we mean the largest number of generators of a free semigroup of a variety with respect to which the semigroup admits a planar Cayley graph. Since the time when L.M.Martynov formulated the problem…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Solomatin Denis Vladimirovich

We consider several subgroup-related algorithmic questions in groups, modeled after the classic computational lattice problems, and study their computational complexity. We find polynomial time solutions to problems like finding a subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Alexander Ushakov

While modal extensions of decidable fragments of first-order logic are usually undecidable, their monodic counterparts, in which formulas in the scope of modal operators have at most one free variable, are typically decidable. This only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alessandro Artale , Christopher Hampson , Roman Kontchakov , Andrea Mazzullo , Frank Wolter

We show that the compressed word problem in a finitely-generated fully residually free group (F -group) is decidable in polynomial time, and use the result to show that the word problem in the automorphism group of such a group is decidable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Jeremy Macdonald

In this paper, we study the word problem for automaton semigroups and automaton groups from a complexity point of view. As an intermediate concept between automaton semigroups and automaton groups, we introduce automaton-inverse semigroups,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Daniele D'Angeli , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter

A generalization of recent group-theoretic matrix multiplication algorithms to an analogue of the theory of partial matrix multiplication is presented. We demonstrate that the added flexibility of this approach can in some cases improve…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Richard Strong Bowen , Bo Chen , Hendrik Orem , Martijn van Schaardenburg

In this paper, we work on the pro-nilpotent group topology of a free group. First we investigate the closure of the product of finitely many subgroups of a free group in the pro-nilpotent group topology. We present an algorithm for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-24 J. Almeida , M. H. Shahzamanian , B. Steinberg

In [ABM07], Abdulla et al. introduced the concept of decisiveness, an interesting tool for lifting good properties of finite Markov chains to denumerable ones. Later, this concept was extended to more general stochastic transition systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Mickael Randour , Cédric Rivière , Pierre Vandenhove