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In this paper we show that there exists an uncountable family of finitely generated simple groups with the same positive theory as any non-abelian free group. In particular, these simple groups have infinite $w$-verbal width for all…

An uncountable $\aleph_1$-free group cannot admit a Polish group topology but an uncountable $\aleph_1$-free abelian group can, as witnessed, for example, by the Baer-Specker group $\mathbb{Z}^\omega$; more strongly, $\mathbb{Z}^\omega$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Gianluca Paolini , Saharon Shelah

We construct an abstract elementary class $K_1$ of torsion-free abelian groups such that $K_1$ is not $(<\aleph_0)$-tame but is $\aleph_0$-tame. This answers a question of [BoVa17]. Furthermore, for every regular uncountable cardinal $\mu$…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Daniel Herden , Marcos Mazari-Armida , Michael D. Walton

Context-free grammar simplification is a subject of high importance in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. This paper presents a formalization, using the Coq proof assistant, of the fact that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Marcus V. M. Ramos , Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz

We prove that for any sequence of binary alphabets $\mathcal{A}_1,\mathcal{A}_2,\dots$, there exists a cube-free word $c_1c_2\dots$ so that $c_1\in\mathcal{A}_1,c_2\in\mathcal{A}_2,\dots$. In particular, for every $n$, there are at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Vuong Bui , Matthieu Rosenfeld

Pumping lemmas are created to prove that given languages are not belong to certain language classes. There are several known pumping lemmas for the whole class and some special classes of the context-free languages. In this paper we prove…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Géza Horváth , Benedek Nagy

Recently, the author characterized all artinian square-free rings with identity. Here, those results are extended to the setting of rings with local units. We use this characterization of square-free rings to derive many results similar to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Martin Montgomery

We give in this paper additional answers to questions of Lescow and Thomas [Logical Specifications of Infinite Computations, In:"A Decade of Concurrency", Springer LNCS 803 (1994), 583-621], proving new topological properties of omega…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Olivier Finkel

We completely characterize the words that can be avoided in infinite squarefree ternary words.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Narad Rampersad

The new generalization of the gauge interaction for the bosonic strings is found. We consider some quasiequivariant maps from the space of metrics on the worldsheet to the space of $n$-tuples of one- and two-dimensional loops. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Kopecky

This paper is a continuation of the study of topological properties of omega context free languages (omega-CFL). We proved before that the class of omega-CFL exhausts the hierarchy of Borel sets of finite rank, and that there exist some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Olivier Finkel

Context-free language theory is a subject of high importance in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. This paper presents a formalization, using the Coq proof assistant, of fundamental results related…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Marcus V. M. Ramos , Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz , Nelma Moreira , José Carlos Bacelar Almeida

We prove that arboreal Galois extensions of number fields are never abelian for post-critically finite rational maps and non-preperiodic base points. For polynomials, this establishes a new class of known cases of a conjecture of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Chifan Leung , Clayton Petsche

We prove (using grammars) that the free inverse monoid of every finite rank has co-context-free word problem. Equivalently, the co-word problem of the free inverse monoid of every finite rank is context-free.

Semantically non-compositional phrases constitute an intriguing research topic in Natural Language Processing. Semantic non-compositionality --the situation when the meaning of a phrase cannot be derived from the meaning of its components,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Meghdad Farahmand

We study words that barely avoid repetitions, for several senses of "barely". A squarefree (respectively, overlap-free, cubefree) word is irreducible if removing any one of its interior letters creates a square (respectively, overlap,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Benjamin Przybocki

A graph is said to be word-representable if there exists a word over its vertex set such that any two vertices are adjacent if and only if they alternate in the word. If no such word exists, the graph is non-word-representable. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Khyodeno Mozhui , Tithi Dwary , K. V. Krishna

We give in this paper some squares of abelian surfaces that are counterexamples to a conjecture formulated by Zhang about the intersection of subvarieties and preperiodic points.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-02 F. Pazuki

In this paper we prove several results on normal forms for linear displacement context-free grammars. The results themselves are rather simple and use well-known techniques, but they are extensively used in more complex constructions.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Alexey Sorokin

We give a criterion in terms of period matrices for an arbitrary polarized abelian variety to be non-simple. Several examples are worked out.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Robert Auffarth , Herbert Lange , Anita Rojas