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The isomorphism problem for infinite finitely presented groups is probably the hardest among standard algorithmic problems in group theory. Classes of groups where it has been completely solved are nilpotent groups, hyperbolic groups, and…

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In this paper we prove two results, one semi-historical and the other new. The semi-historical result, which goes back to Thurston and Riley, is that the geometrization theorem implies that there is an algorithm for the homeomorphism…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Greg Kuperberg

An important endeavor in computer science is to understand the expressive power of logical formalisms over discrete structures, such as words. Naturally, "understanding" is not a mathematical notion. This investigation requires therefore a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

We classify the homeomorphism types of the Morse boundaries of all 3-manifold groups into 9 different possible homeomorphism types, and show how the Morse boundary depends on the geometric decomposition.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Stefanie Zbinden

The word problem is an old and central problem in (computational) group theory. It is well-known that the word problem is undecidable in general, but decidable for specific types of presentations. Consistent polycyclic presentations are an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Tobias Moede , Matthias Neumann-Brosig

This is a problem list in the theory of foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds. The focus is on the relationship of foliations and laminations with other aspects of 3-manifold topology, especially with the Thurston theory of geometric…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danny Calegari

The word problem of a group is a very important question. The word problem in the braid group is of particular interest for topologists, algebraists and geometers. In previouse article we have looked at the braid group from a topological…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Kaplan , M. Teicher

We give a criterion on a group $\pi$ and a homomorphism $w \colon \pi \to C_2$ under which closed $4$-manifolds with fundamental group $\pi$ and orientation character $w$ are classified up to homotopy equivalence by their quadratic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jonathan Hillman , Daniel Kasprowski , Mark Powell , Arunima Ray

In this paper we determined all of the possible self mapping degrees of the manifolds with $S^3$-geometry, which are supposed to be all 3-manifolds with finite fundamental groups. This is a part of a project to determine all possible self…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-27 Xiaoming Du

We explore a natural class of semigroups that have word problem decidable by finite state automata. Among the main results are invariance of this property under change of generators, invariance under basic algebraic constructions and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Max Neunhöffer , Markus Pfeiffer , Nik Ruskuc

The automorphism groups of certain factorial complex affine threefolds admitting locally trivial actions of the additive group are determined. As a consequence new counterexamples to a generalized cancellation problem are obtained.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-29 David Finston , Stefan Maubach

We prove that the conjugacy problem in Out(Fm) is solvable for the class of outer automorphisms whose restrictions to their polynomial subgroups are of finite order. To do this, we first investigate the structure of suspensions of free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Gabriel Bartlett

In this paper we investigate the decidability and complexity of problems related to braid composition. While all known problems for a class of braids with three strands, $B_3$, have polynomial time solutions we prove that a very natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Sang-Ki Ko , Igor Potapov

We study the complexity of isomorphism problems for d-way arrays, or tensors, under natural actions by classical groups such as orthogonal, unitary, and symplectic groups. Such problems arise naturally in statistical data analysis and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhili Chen , Joshua A. Grochow , Youming Qiao , Gang Tang , Chuanqi Zhang

This article studies the complexity of the word problem in groups of automorphisms of subshifts. We show in particular that for any Turing degree, there exists a subshift whose automorphism group contains a subgroup whose word problem has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Pierre Guillon , Emmanuel Jeandel , Jarkko Kari , Pascal Vanier

In May 2015, a conference entitled "Groups, Geometry, and 3-manifolds" was held at the University of California, Berkeley. The organizers asked participants to suggest problems and open questions, related in some way to the subject of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Kelly Delp , Diane Hoffoss , Jason Fox Manning

Part 1 : We remark that the conjugacy problem for pairs of hyperbolic au- tomorphisms of a finitely presented group (typically a free group) is decidable. The solution that we propose uses the isomorphism problem for the suspensions, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-20 François Dahmani

We prove that the isomorphism problem for finitely generated fully residually free groups is decidable. We also show that each finitely generated fully residually free group G has a decomposition that is invariant under automorphisms of G,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Inna Bumagin , Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Miasnikov

We study a family of groups consisting of the simplest extensions of lamplighter groups. We use these groups to answer multiple open questions in combinatorial group theory, providing groups that exhibit various combinations of properties:…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Corentin Bodart

We give a complete classification of the spherical 3-manifolds that bound smooth rational homology 4-balls. Furthermore, we determine the order of spherical 3-manifolds in the rational homology cobordism group of rational homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Dong Heon Choe , Kyungbae Park