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We define the symmetric Post Correspondence Problem (PCP) and prove that it is undecidable. As an application we show that the original proof of undecidability of the freeness problem for 3-by-3 integer matrix semigroups works for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-14 J. C. Birget , A. L. Talambutsa

Probabilistic embeddings have proven useful for capturing polysemous word meanings, as well as ambiguity in image matching. In this paper, we study the advantages of probabilistic embeddings in a cross-modal setting (i.e., text and images),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Leila Pishdad , Ran Zhang , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Allan Jepson , Afsaneh Fazly

We study two modifications of the Post Correspondence Problem (PCP), namely 1) the bi-infinite version, where it is asked whether there exists a bi-infinite word such that two given morphisms agree on it, and 2) the conjugate version, where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Olivier Finkel , Vesa Halava , Tero Harju , Esa Sahla

We consider classes of fundamental groups of complements of various kinds of codimension 2 embeddings and show that, in general, the problem of deciding whether or not a group in one class belongs to a smaller class is algorithmically…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-28 F. Gonzalez-Acuna , C. McA. Gordon , J. Simon

This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seth Bulin

The general/finite PCTL satisfiability problem asks whether a given PCTL formula has a general/finite model. We show that the finite PCTL satisfiability problem is undecidable, and the general PCTL satisfiability problem is even highly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Miroslav Chodil , Antonín Kučera

In this paper, we investigate problems which are dual to the unification problem, namely the Fixed Point (FP) problem, Common Term (CT) problem and the Common Equation (CE) problem for string rewriting systems. Our main motivation is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zümrüt Akçam , Kimberly A. Cornell , Daniel S. Hono , Paliath Narendran , Andrew Pulver

The Connes Embedding Problem (CEP) asks whether every separable II_1 factor embeds into an ultrapower of the hyperfinite II_1 factor. We show that the CEP is equivalent to the computability of the universal theory of every type II_1 von…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Isaac Goldbring , Bradd Hart

The predicate complementary to the well-known Godel's provability predicate is defined. From its recursiveness new consequences concerning the incompleteness argumentation are drawn and extended to new results of consistency, completeness…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paola Cattabriga

The determination of the stability of the long-lived consensus problem is a fundamental open problem in distributed systems. We concentrate on the memoryless binary case with geodesic paths. We offer a conjecture on the stability in this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Cristina G. Fernandes , Maya Stein

The notions of concreteness and imageability, traditionally important in psycholinguistics, are gaining significance in semantic-oriented natural language processing tasks. In this paper we investigate the predictability of these two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Nikola Ljubešić , Darja Fišer , Anita Peti-Stantić

Word embedding, specially with its recent developments, promises a quantification of the similarity between terms. However, it is not clear to which extent this similarity value can be genuinely meaningful and useful for subsequent tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Navid Rekabsaz , Mihai Lupu , Allan Hanbury

(1) There is a finitely presented group with a word problem which is a uniformly effectively inseparable equivalence relation. (2) There is a finitely generated group of computable permutations with a word problem which is a universal…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-13 André Nies , Andrea Sorbi

Recently it was shown that it is undecidable whether a term rewrite system can be proved terminating by a polynomial interpretation in the natural numbers. In this paper we show that this is also the case when restricting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Fabian Mitterwallner , Aart Middeldorp , René Thiemann

It was noticed by Harel in [Har86] that "one can define $\Sigma_1^1$-complete versions of the well-known Post Correspondence Problem". We first give a complete proof of this result, showing that the infinite Post Correspondence Problem in a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Olivier Finkel

We study decidability and complexity questions related to a continuous analogue of the Skolem-Pisot problem concerning the zeros and nonnegativity of a linear recurrent sequence. In particular, we show that the continuous version of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Paul Bell , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Raphael Jungers , Vincent D. Blondel

Translational tiling problems are among the most fundamental and representative undecidable problems in all fields of mathematics. Greenfeld and Tao obtained two remarkable results on the undecidability of translational tiling in recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

We consider the model of pushdown vector addition systems with resets. These consist of vector addition systems that have access to a pushdown stack and have instructions to reset counters. For this model, we study the coverability problem.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Sylvain Schmitz , Georg Zetzsche

There exist combable groups in which the conjugacy problem is unsolvable. The isomorphism problem is unsolvable for certain recursive sequences of finite presentations of combable groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin R. Bridson

Using a novel rewriting problem, we show that several natural decision problems about finite automata are undecidable (i.e., recursively unsolvable). In contrast, we also prove three related problems are decidable. We apply one result to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Jörg Endrullis , Jeffrey Shallit , Tim Smith