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The set of finite words over a well-quasi-ordered set is itself well-quasi-ordered. This seminal result by Higman is a cornerstone of the theory of well-quasi-orderings and has found numerous applications in computer science. However, this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nathan Lhote , Aliaume Lopez , Lia Schütze

The set of Schr\"oder words (Schr\"oder language) is endowed with a natural partial order, which can be conveniently described by interpreting Schr\"oder words as lattice paths. The resulting poset is called the Schr\"oder pattern poset. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Lapo Cioni , Luca Ferrari

We study a certain poset on the free monoid on a countable alphabet. This poset is determined by the fact that its total extensions are precisely the standard term orders. We also investigate the poset classifying degree-compatible standard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Snellman

In [5], Elnitsky constructed three elegant bijections between classes of reduced words for Type $\mathrm{A}$, $\mathrm{B}$ and $\mathrm{D}$ families of Coxeter groups and certain tilings of polygons. This paper offers a particular…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Robert Nicolaides , Peter Rowley

The use of monoids in the study of word languages recognized by finite-state automata has been quite fruitful. In this work, we look at the same idea of "recognizability by finite monoids" for other monoids. In particular, we attempt to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pranshu Gaba , Arnab Sur

We use model theoretic techniques to construct explicit first-order axiomatizations for the classes of posets that can be represented as systems of sets, where the order relation is given by inclusion, and existing meets and joins of…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Rob Egrot

Let $M(A,I)$ be a free partially commutative monoid with involution and $G(A,I)$ be its quotient group, e.g. a right-angled Artin or Coxeter group. Given a system of word equations over $M(A,I)$ with recognizable constraints with input size…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Volker Diekert , Artur Jeż , Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Thumm

We study the graph on reduced words with edges given by the Coxeter relations for the symmetric group. We define a metric on reduced words for a given permutation, analogous to Coxeter length for permutations, for which the graph becomes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Sami Assaf

Computing normal forms in groups (or monoids) is in general harder than solving the word problem (equality testing). However, normal form computation has a much wider range of applications. It is therefore interesting to investigate the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Volker Diekert , Jonathan Kausch , Markus Lohrey

A special inverse monoid is one defined by a presentation where all the defining relations have the form $r = 1$. By a result of Ivanov Margolis and Meakin the word problem for such an inverse monoid can often be reduced to the word problem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jonathan Warne

A family of partial orders in the free monoid of words, induced from a partial order in alphabet, is presented. The induced orders generalize the chronological posets that have been defined for the two-letter alphabet only, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Jerzy Kocik

We present a new fragment of axiomatic set theory for pure sets and for the iteration of power sets within given transitive sets. It turns out that this formal system admits an interesting hierarchy of models with true membership relation…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Matthias Kunik

We study subsets of groups and monoids defined by language-theoretic means, generalizing the classical approach to the word problem. We expand on results by Herbst from 1991 to a more general setting, and for a class of languages…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-01 André Carvalho , Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

The compressed word problem for a finitely generated monoid M asks whether two given compressed words over the generators of M represent the same element of M. For string compression, straight-line programs, i.e., context-free grammars that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Markus Lohrey

Let P be a poset and let P* be the set of all finite length words over P. Generalized subword order is the partial order on P* obtained by letting u \leq w if and only if there is a subword u' of w having the same length as u such that each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Peter R. W. McNamara , Bruce E. Sagan

On etudie divers aspects d'une formule qui compte les reflexions pleines dans les groupes de Coxeter finis. ***** We study several points about a formula which counts reflexions in a finite Coxeter group whose reduced decompositions involve…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Chapoton

We give a new proof of a result from well quasi-order theory on the computability of bases for upwards-closed sets of words. This new proof is based on Angluin's L* algorithm, that learns an automaton from a minimally adequate teacher. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Quentin Aristote

We introduce Coxeter-sortable elements of a Coxeter group W. For finite W, we give bijective proofs that Coxeter-sortable elements are equinumerous with clusters and with noncrossing partitions. We characterize Coxeter-sortable elements in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Nathan Reading

Let $w$ be a group-word. Suppose that the set of all $w$-values in a profinite group $G$ is contained in a union of countably many subgroups. It is natural to ask in what way the structure of the verbal subgroup $w(G)$ depends on the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Cristina Acciarri , Pavel Shumyatsky

In this paper, we initiate the study of the twisted weak order associated to a twisted Bruhat order for a Coxeter group and explore the relationship between the lattice property of such order and the infinite reduced words. We show that for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Weijia Wang