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We continue to consider the ordered lexicographic sequence, which is constructed according to the formal characteristics of a series of natural numbers. For analysis, we selected balanced parentheses with zeros, Motzkin words. As you know,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Gennady Eremin

A word in a free group is called ``potentially positive'' if it is automorphic to an element which is written with only positive exponents. We will develop automata to analyze properties of potentially positive words. We will use these to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Emma Dinowitz , Lucy Koch-Hyde , Siobhan O'Connor , Eamonn Olive

In combinatorics of words, a concatenation of $k$ consecutive equal blocks is called a power of order $k$. In this paper we take a different point of view and define an anti-power of order $k$ as a concatenation of $k$ consecutive pairwise…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Gabriele Fici , Antonio Restivo , Manuel Silva , Luca Q. Zamboni

Sorting algorithms are fundamental to computer science, and their correctness criteria are well understood as rearranging elements of a list according to a specified total order on the underlying set of elements. As mathematical functions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Vikraman Choudhury , Wind Wong

In `free word order' languages, every sentence is embedded in its specific context. Among others, the order of constituents is determined by the categories `theme', `rheme' and `contrastive focus'. This paper shows how to recognise and to…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ralf Steinberger

A regular left-order on finitely generated group $G$ is a total, left-multiplication invariant order on $G$ whose corresponding positive cone is the image of a regular language over the generating set of the group under the evaluation map.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Yago Antolín , Cristóbal Rivas , Hang Lu Su

Let $F_n$ be the free group of a finite rank $n$. We study orbits $Orb_{\phi}(u)$, where $u$ is an element of the group $F_n$, under the action of an automorphism $\phi$. If an orbit like that is finite, we determine precisely what its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexei G. Myasnikov , Vladimir Shpilrain

We prove that there exists an integer-valued function f on positive integers such that if a finite group G has at most k real-valued irreducible characters, then |G/Sol(G)| is at most f(k), where Sol(G) denotes the largest solvable normal…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Nguyen Ngoc Hung , A. A. Schaeffer Fry , Hung P. Tong-Viet , C. Ryan Vinroot

The Chen-Fox-Lyndon theorem states that every finite word over a fixed alphabet can be uniquely factorized as a lexicographically nonincreasing sequence of Lyndon words. This theorem can be used to define the family of Lyndon words in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Émilie Charlier , Manon Philibert , Manon Stipulanti

We construct automata over a binary alphabet with $2n$ states, $n\geq 2$, whose states freely generate a free group of rank $2n$. Combined with previous work, this shows that a free group of every finite rank can be generated by finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Steinberg , Mariya Vorobets , Yaroslav Vorobets

A positive integer $m$ will be called a {\it finitistic order} for an element $\gamma$ of a group $\Gamma$ if there exist a finite group $G$ and a homomorphism $h:\Gamma\to G$ such that $h(\gamma)$ has order $m$ in $G$. It is shown that up…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-18 Peter B. Shalen

Consider the free group algebra $K\left[F\right]$, where $F$ is a free group and $K$ a field. A well-order $\prec$ on $F$ is called an exposure order if words are greater than their proper prefixes. We show that every one-sided ideal $I$ in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Matan Seidel

A finite group $G$ is called $k$-factorizable if for every ordered factorization $|G|=a_1\cdots a_k$ into integers each greater than $1$ there exist subsets $A_1,\dots,A_k\subseteq G$ such that $|A_i|=a_i$ for each $i$ and $G=A_1\cdots…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Mikhail Kabenyuk

We introduce new partial orders on the set $S^+_n$ of positive-definite matrices of dimension $n$ derived from the homogeneous geometry of $S^+_n$ induced by the natural transitive action of the general linear group $GL(n)$. The orders are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Cyrus Mostajeran , Rodolphe Sepulchre

An element w in the free group on r letters defines a map f from G^r to G for each group G. In this note, we show that whenever w is non-trivial and G is a semisimple algebraic group, f is dominant. When G is a finite simple group, the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Larsen

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

In [4] we developed the theory of positive cones on finite-dimensional simple algebras with involution, inspired by the classical Artin-Schreier theory of orderings on fields, and based on the notion of signatures of hermitian forms [1]. In…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Vincent Astier , Thomas Unger

In this article, we investigate the existence of joins in the weak order of an infinite Coxeter group W. We give a geometric characterization of the existence of a join for a subset X in W in terms of the inversion sets of its elements and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Christophe Hohlweg , Jean-Philippe Labbé

Lists of equivalence classes of words under rotation or rotation plus reversal (i.e., necklaces and bracelets) have many uses, and efficient algorithms for generating these lists exist. In combinatorial group theory elements of a group are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Colin Ramsay

In this paper, we consider a natural generalization of the concept of order of an element in a group: an element $g \in G$ is said to have order $k$ in a subgroup $H$ of $G$ (\resp \wrt a coset $Hu$) if $k$ is the first strictly positive…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Jordi Delgado , Enric Ventura , Alexander Zakharov