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We study the complexity of computation in finitely generated free left, right and two-sided adequate semigroups and monoids. We present polynomial time (quadratic in the RAM model of computation) algorithms to solve the word problem and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Mark Kambites , Alexandr Kazda

We deal with the following conjecture. If w is a group word and G is a finite group in which any nilpotent subgroup generated by w-values has exponent dividing e, then the exponent of the verbal subgroup w(G) is bounded in terms of e and w…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Eloisa Detomi , Marta Morigi , Pavel Shumyatsky

We give a quadratic-time explicit and computable algorithm to solve the word problem for Artin groups that do not contain any relations of length 3. Furthermore, we prove that, given two geodesic words representing the same element, one can…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Rubén Blasco-García , María Cumplido , Rose Morris-Wright

A generalized Baumslag-Solitar group (GBS group) is a finitely generated group $G$ which acts on a tree with all edge and vertex stabilizers infinite cyclic. We show that Out(G) either contains non-abelian free groups or is virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Gilbert Levitt

We study fibers of word maps in finite, profinite, and residually finite groups. Our main result is that, for any word w in the free group on d generators, there exists $\epsilon > 0$ such that if G is a residually finite group with…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Michael Larsen , Aner Shalev

The \emph{Entscheidungsproblem}, or the classical decision problem, asks whether a given formula of first-order logic is satisfiable. In this work, we consider an extension of this problem to regular first-order \emph{theories}, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Umang Mathur , David Mestel , Mahesh Viswanathan

Recently, Sawin and Wood (arXiv:math/2210.06279) proved a formula for the distribution of a random abelian group $G$ in terms of its $H$-moments $\mathbb{E} [\#\operatorname{Sur}(G,H)]$. We show that properties of Macdonald polynomials…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Roger Van Peski

The complexity of the equation solvability problem is known for nilpotent groups, for not solvable groups and for some semidirect products of Abelian groups. We provide a new polynomial time algorithm for deciding the equation solvability…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Attila Földvári

Let m, n be positive integers, v a multilinear commutator word and w = v^m. We prove that if G is a residually finite group in which all w-values are n-Engel, then the verbal subgroup w(G) is locally nilpotent. We also examine the question…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Raimundo Bastos , Pavel Shumyatsky , Antonio Tortora , Maria Tota

In this paper we investigate computational properties of the Diophantine problem for spherical equations in some classes of finite groups. We classify the complexity of different variations of the problem, e.g., when $G$ is fixed and when…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Caroline Mattes , Alexander Ushakov , Armin Weiß

The commutator length $cl_G(g)$ of an element $g \in [G,G]$ in the commutator subgroup of a group $G$ is the least number of commutators needed to express $g$ as their product. If $G$ is a non-abelian free groups, then given an integer $n…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Nicolaus Heuer

It is an open problem whether definability in Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) on forests is decidable. Based on an algebraic characterization by Boja\'nczyk, et. al.,(2012) in terms of forest algebras, Straubing (2013) described an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Michael Hahn , Andreas Krebs , Howard Straubing

Let $\gamma_n=[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ be the $n$th lower central word. Denote by $X_n$ the set of $\gamma_n$-values in a group $G$ and suppose that there is a number $m$ such that $|g^{X_n}|\leq m$ for each $g\in G$. We prove that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Eloisa Detomi , Guram Donadze , Marta Morigi , Pavel Shumyatsky

We study the Identity Problem, the problem of determining if a finitely generated semigroup of matrices contains the identity matrix; see Problem 3 (Chapter 10.3) in ``Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory'' by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Paul C. Bell , Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

Let m, n be positive integers, v a multilinear commutator word and w = v^m. We prove that if G is a locally graded group in which all w-values are n-Engel, then the verbal subgroup w(G) is locally nilpotent.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Pavel Shumyatsky , Antonio Tortora , Maria Tota

Recently the third named author defined a 2-parametric family of groups $G_n^k$ \cite{gnk}. Those groups may be regarded as a certain generalisation of braid groups. Study of the connection between the groups $G_n^k$ and dynamical systems…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Denis Fedoseev , Andrey Karpov , Vassily Manturov

The HOM-problem asks whether the image of a regular tree language under a given tree homomorphism is again regular. It was recently shown to be decidable by Godoy, Gim\'enez, Ramos, and \`Alvarez. In this paper, the N-weighted version of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Andreas Maletti , Andreea-Teodora Nász , Erik Paul

We describe solutions of the equation $x^ny^m=a^nb^m$ in acylindrically hyperbolic groups (AH-groups), where $a,b$ are non-commensurable special loxodromic elements and $n,m$ are integers with sufficiently large common divisor. Using this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Oleg Bogopolski

In this note, we study the notion of random Dehn function and compute an asymptotic upper bound for finitely presented acylindrically hyperbolic groups whose Dehn function is at most polynomial. By showing that in these cases, if the group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Jerónimo García-Mejía , Antoine Goldsborough

A combing is a set of normal forms for a finitely generated group. This article investigates the language-theoretic and geometric properties of combings for nilpotent and polycyclic groups. It is shown that a finitely generated class 2…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert H. Gilman , Derek F. Holt , Sarah Rees