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Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

The worst-case complexity of group-theoretic algorithms has been studied for a long time. Generic-case complexity, or complexity on random inputs, was introduced and studied relatively recently. In this paper, we address the average-case…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Alexander Olshanskii , Vladimir Shpilrain

For finitely generated nilpotent groups, we employ Mal'cev coordinates to solve several classical algorithmic problems efficiently. Computation of normal forms, the membership problem, the conjugacy problem, and computation of presentations…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jeremy Macdonald , Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Svetla Vassileva

We give an $O(n \log^3(n))$-time algorithm for the word problem in the mapping class group of a compact surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Mark C. Bell , Saul Schleimer

Weanalyzethecomputationalcomplexityofanalgorithmtosolve the conjugacy search problem in a certain family of metabelian groups. We prove that in general the time complexity of the conjugacy search problem for these groups is at most…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Jonathan Gryak , Delaram Kahrobaei , Conchita Martinez-Perez

We give a simple algorithm to solve the subgroup membership problem for virtually free groups. For a fixed virtually free group with a fixed generating set $X$, the subgroup membership problem is uniformly solvable in time $O(n\log^*(n))$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Sam Cookson , Nicholas Touikan

In this paper we give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for computing orders of solvable groups. Several other problems, such as testing membership in solvable groups, testing equality of subgroups in a given solvable group, and testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Watrous

We develop a combinatorial approach to the study of semigroups and monoids with finite presentations satisfying small overlap conditions. In contrast to existing geometric methods, our approach facilitates a sequential left-right analysis…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Mark Kambites

We prove that the compressed word problem and the compressed simultaneous conjugacy problem are solvable in polynomial time in hyperbolic groups. In such problems, group elements are input as words defined by straight line programs defined…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Derek Holt , Markus Lohrey , Saul Schleimer

We present a new algorithm deciding if the intersection of a quasiconvex subgroup of a negatively curved group with a conjugate is finite. We also give a short proof of decidability of the membership problem for quasiconvex subgroups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Rita Gitik

Intelligent systems sometimes need to infer the probable goals of people, cars, and robots, based on partial observations of their motion. This paper introduces a class of probabilistic programs for formulating and solving these problems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Marco F. Cusumano-Towner , Alexey Radul , David Wingate , Vikash K. Mansinghka

We consider the problem of estimating the expected outcomes of Monte Carlo processes whose outputs are described by multidimensional random variables. We tightly characterize the quantum query complexity of this problem for various choices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Arjan Cornelissen , Sofiene Jerbi

We show that the word problem for any 3-manifold group is solvable in time $O(n\log^3 n)$. Our main contribution is the proof that the word problem for admissible graphs of groups, in the sense of Croke and Kleiner, is solvable in $O(n\log…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Alessandro Sisto , Stefanie Zbinden

We show that the compressed word problem in a finitely-generated fully residually free group (F -group) is decidable in polynomial time, and use the result to show that the word problem in the automorphism group of such a group is decidable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Jeremy Macdonald

Given a system of equations in a "random" finitely generated subgroup of the braid group, we show how to find a small ordered list of elements in the subgroup, which contains a solution to the equations with a significant probability.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-02 D. Garber , S. Kaplan , M. Teicher , B. Tsaban , U. Vishne

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

We consider several subgroup-related algorithmic questions in groups, modeled after the classic computational lattice problems, and study their computational complexity. We find polynomial time solutions to problems like finding a subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Alexander Ushakov

We prove that the complexity of the Conjugacy Problems for wreath products and for free solvable groups is decidable in polynomial time. For the wreath product AwrB, we must assume the decidability in polynomial time of the Conjugacy…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Svetla Vassileva

It is shown that for graph groups (right-angled Artin groups) the conjugacy problem as well as a restricted version of the simultaneous conjugacy problem can be solved in polynomial time even if input words are represented in a compressed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-08 Niko Haubold , Markus Lohrey , Christian Mathissen

A generalization of recent group-theoretic matrix multiplication algorithms to an analogue of the theory of partial matrix multiplication is presented. We demonstrate that the added flexibility of this approach can in some cases improve…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Richard Strong Bowen , Bo Chen , Hendrik Orem , Martijn van Schaardenburg