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We begin the systematic study of decision problems for finitely generated groups given by a solution to their word problem. We relate this to the study of computable analysis on the space of marked groups. We point out that several distinct…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Emmanuel Rauzy

A locally normal subgroup in a topological group is a subgroup whose normaliser is open. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the large-scale structure of closed locally normal subgroups of complete Kac-Moody groups over…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Timothée Marquis , Colin D. Reid

By a recent result of Juh\'{a}sz and van Mill, a locally compact topological group whose dense subspaces are all separable is metrizable. In this note we investigate the following question: is every locally compact group having all dense…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Dekui Peng

The group isomorphism problem asks whether two finite groups given by their Cayley tables are isomorphic or not. Although there are polynomial-time algorithms for some specific group classes, the best known algorithm for testing isomorphism…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Saveliy V. Skresanov

Let $G$ be a locally compact Abelian group, and $w: G\to (0, \infty)$ be a Borel measurable weighted function. In this paper, the algebraic and topological properties of group algebra are studied and assessed. We show that the weighted…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Maryam Aghakoochai , Ali Rejali

We present a quick approach to computing the $K$-theory of the category of locally compact modules over any order in a semisimple $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra. We obtain the $K$-theory by first quotienting out the compact modules and subsequently…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Oliver Braunling , Ruben Henrard , Adam-Christiaan van Roosmalen

A connected graph is called \emph{geodetic} if there is a unique geodesic between each pair of vertices. In this paper we prove that if a finitely generated group admits a Cayley graph which is geodetic, then the group must be virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Murray Elder , Giles Gardam , Adam Piggott , Davide Spriano , Kane Townsend

Friedl and L\"oh (2021, Confl. Math.) prove that testing whether or not there is an epimorphism from a finitely presented group to a virtually cyclic group, or to the direct product of an abelian and a finite group, is decidable. Here we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Murray Elder , Jerry Shen , Armin Weiß

We derive a lower and an upper bound for the rank of the finite part of operator $K$-theory groups of maximal and reduced $C^*$-algebras of finitely generated groups. The lower bound is based on the amount of polynomially growing conjugacy…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Süleyman Kağan Samurkaş

The word problem for discrete groups is well-known to be undecidable by a Turing Machine; more precisely, it is reducible both to and from and thus equivalent to the discrete Halting Problem. The present work introduces and studies a real…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Ziegler , Klaus Meer

We work in the category of locally definable groups in an o-minimal expansion of a field. Eleftheriou and Peterzil conjectured that every definably generated abelian connected group G in this category is a cover of a definable group. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Alessandro Berarducci , Mário Edmundo , Marcello Mamino

We give a simpler proof using automata theory of a recent result of Kapovich, Weidmann and Myasnikov according to which so-called benign graphs of groups preserve decidability of the generalized word problem. These include graphs of groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Markus Lohrey , Benjamin Steinberg

It is known that the bounded Geodesic Length Problem in free metabelian groups is NP-complete (in particular, the Geodesic Problem is NP-hard). We construct a 2-approximation polynomial time deterministic algorithm for the Geodesic Problem.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-28 O. Kharlampovich , A. Mohajeri Moghaddam

By algorithmic metatheorems for a model checking problem P over infinite-state systems we mean generic results that can be used to infer decidability (possibly complexity) of P not only over a specific class of infinite systems, but over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Anthony Widjaja To , Leonid Libkin

Tree-controlled grammars are context-free grammars where the derivation process is controlled in such a way that every word on a level of the derivation tree must belong to a certain control language. We investigate the generative capacity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Bianca Truthe

Let $w$ be a multilinear commutator word, that is, a commutator of weight $n$ in $n$ different group variables. It is proved that if $G$ is a profinite group in which all pronilpotent subgroups generated by $w$-values are periodic, then the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-22 E. I. Khukhro , P. Shumyatsky

Suppose G is a topological group containing a (closed) topological copy of the Frechet-Urysohn fan. If G is a perfectly normal sequential space (a normal k-space) then every closed metrizable subset in $G$ is locally compact. Applying this…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Taras Banakh

We show that a large class of languages in the standard finite generating set X = {$x_0, x_1, x_0^{-1}, x_1^{-1}$} cannot be part of an automatic structure for Thompson's Group F. These languages are ones that accept at least one…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Jeremy Hauze

We investigate how often geodesics have homology in a fixed set of the homology lattice of a compact Riemann surface. We prove that closed geodesics are equidistributed on any sets with asymptotic density with respect to a specific norm. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yiannis Petridis , Morten S. Risager

In this paper, we prove a series of results on group embeddings in groups with a small number of generators. We show that each finitely generated group $G$ lying in a variety ${\mathcal M}$ can be embedded in a $4$-generated group $H \in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Vitaly Roman'kov