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This paper studies decision problems for semigroups that are word-hyperbolic in the sense of Duncan & Gilman. A fundamental investigation reveals that the natural definition of a `word-hyperbolic structure' has to be strengthened slightly…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Alan J. Cain , Markus Pfeiffer

There are many open questions surrounding the characterisation of groups with context-sensitive word problem. Only in 2018 was it shown that all finitely generated virtually Abelian groups have multiple context-free word problems, and it is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Graham Campbell

Motivated by the question of which completely regular semigroups have context-free word problem, we show that for certain classes of languages $\mathfrak{C}$(including context-free), every completely regular semigroup that is a union of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Tara Brough

Let $G$ be a group that is relatively hyperbolic with respect to a collection of subgroups $\{H_{\lambda}\}_{\lambda\in \Lambda}$. Suppose that $G$ is given by a finite relative presentation $\mathcal{P}$ with respect to this collection. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Oleg Bogopolski

We prove that the word problem of a finitely generated group $G$ is in NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) if and only if this group is a subgroup of a finitely presented group $H$ with polynomial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -C. Birget , A. Yu. Olshanskii , E. Rips , M. Sapir

We study the word and conjugacy problems in lacunary hyperbolic groups (briefly, LHG). In particular, we describe a necessary and sufficient condition for decidability of the word problem in LHG. Then, based on the graded small-cancellation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Arman Darbinyan

We obtain a criterion for quasiconvexity of a subgroup of an amalgamated free product of two word hyperbolic groups along a virtually cyclic subgroup. The result provides a method of constructing new word hyperbolic group in class (Q), that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ilya Kapovich

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

For relatively hyperbolic groups, we investigate conditions guaranteeing that the subgroup generated by two relatively quasiconvex subgroups $Q_1$ and $Q_2$ is relatively quasiconvex and isomorphic to $Q_1 \ast_{Q_1 \cap Q_2} Q_2$. The main…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza , Alessandro Sisto

Let S be a closed surface of genus at least 2. We show that a finitely generated group G which is an extension of the fundamental group H of S is word hyperbolic if and only the orbit map of the quotient group G/H on the complex of curves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Ursula Hamenstaedt

In this paper we describe finitely generated groups $H$ universally equivalent (with constants from $G$ in the language) to a given torsion-free relatively hyperbolic group $G$ with free abelian parabolics. It turns out that, as in the free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-17 O. Kharlampovich , A. Myasnikov

For relatively hyperbolic groups, we investigate conditions guaranteeing that the subgroup generated by two quasiconvex subgroups $Q$ and $R$ is quasiconvex and isomorphic to $Q \ast_{Q\cap R} R$. Our results generalized known combination…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza

We study the full language of quasigeodesics in Cayley graphs, with fixed error constants. We show that, given a non-virtually-cyclic nilpotent group or Baumslag--Solitar group, and any finite generating set, such languages fail to be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Arya Saranathan

We provide an algorithm to solve the word problem in all fundamental groups of closed 3-manifolds; in particular, we show that these groups are autostackable. This provides a common framework for a solution to the word problem in any closed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Mark Brittenham , Susan Hermiller , Tim Susse

The \emph{word problem} of a group $G = \langle \Sigma \rangle$ can be defined as the set of formal words in $\Sigma^*$ that represent the identity in $G$. When viewed as formal languages, this gives a strong connection between classes of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho

In 2018, it was shown that all finitely generated virtually Abelian groups have multiple context-free word problems, and it is still an open problem as to where to precisely place the word problems of hyperbolic groups in the formal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Graham Campbell

Formal languages based on the multiplication tables of finitely generated groups are investigated and used to give a linguistic characterization of word hyperbolic groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert H. Gilman

We show that the class of finitely generated virtually free groups is precisely the class of demonstrable subgroups for R. Thompson's group $V$. The class of demonstrable groups for $V$ consists of all groups which can embed into $V$ with a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Daniel Bennett , Collin Bleak

We show that properly and cocompactly cubulated relatively hyperbolic groups are virtually special, provided the peripheral subgroups are virtually special in a way that is compatible with the cubulation. This extends Agol's result for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Eduardo Oregón-Reyes

Given a finitely generated relatively hyperbolic group $G$, we construct a finite generating set $X$ of $G$ such that $(G,X)$ has the `falsification by fellow traveler property' provided that the parabolic subgroups $\{H_\omega\}_{\omega\in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Yago Antolín , Laura Ciobanu