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This paper presents a novel approach to automatically solving arithmetic word problems. This is the first algorithmic approach that can handle arithmetic problems with multiple steps and operations, without depending on additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Subhro Roy , Dan Roth

Satisfiability of word equations is an important problem in the intersection of formal languages and algebra: Given two sequences consisting of letters and variables we are to decide whether there is a substitution for the variables that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Artur Jeż

We consider the embedding problem in coding theory: given an independence (a code-related property) and an independent language $L$, find a maximal independent language containing $L$. We consider the case where the code-related property is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Stavros Konstantinidis , Mitja Mastnak

In this paper we investigate the word problem of the free Burnside semigroup satisfying x^2=x^3 and having two generators. Elements of this semigroup are classes of equivalent words. A natural way to solve the word problem is to select a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 A. N. Plyushchenko , A. M. Shur

M.-P. Sch\"utzenberger asked to determine the support of the free Lie algebra ${\mathcal L}_{{\mathbb Z}_{m}}(A)$ on a finite alphabet $A$ over the ring ${\mathbb Z}_{m}$ of integers $\bmod m$ and all the corresponding pairs of twin and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-23 Ioannis Michos

This paper considers the word problem for free inverse monoids of finite rank from a language theory perspective. It is shown that no free inverse monoid has context-free word problem; that the word problem of the free inverse monoid of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Tara Brough

We consider some questions about formal languages that arise when inverses of letters, words and languages are defined. The reduced representation of a language over the free monoid is its unique equivalent representation in the free group.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-26 Thomas Ang , Giovanni Pighizzini , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

In this paper we consider the problem of context-free grammars comparison from the analysis point of view. We show that the problem can be reduced to numerical solution of systems of nonlinear matrix equations. The approach presented here…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-23 J. Joao Almeida , Eliana Grande , Georgi Smirnov

Given a linear equation $\mathcal{L}$, a set $A$ of integers is $\mathcal{L}$-free if $A$ does not contain any `non-trivial' solutions to $\mathcal{L}$. This notion incorporates many central topics in combinatorial number theory such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Kitty Meeks , Andrew Treglown

In this work, we leverage the linear algebraic structure of distributed word representations to automatically extend knowledge bases and allow a machine to learn new facts about the world. Our goal is to extract structured facts from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Lisa Seung-Yeon Lee

We show that the Word Problem in finitely generated subgroups of $\textsf{GL}_d(\mathbb{Z})$ can be solved in linear average-case complexity. This is done under the bit-complexity model, which accounts for the fact that large integers are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Frédérique Bassino , Cyril Nicaud , Pascal Weil

A very first step to develop non-commutative algebraic geometry is the arithmetic of polynomials in non-commuting variables over a commutative field, that is, the study of elements in free associative algebras. This investigation is…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Pham Ngoc Ánh , Francesca Mantese

Let $I$ be a graded ideal of $K[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ generated by homogeneous polynomials of a same degree $d$, and assume that $I$ has linear quotients. In this note, we use Horseshoe Lemma to give a relatively direct inductive construction of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-04 A-Ming Liu , Tongsuo Wu

We consider anti-unification for simply typed lambda terms in associative, commutative, and associative-commutative theories and develop a sound and complete algorithm which takes two lambda terms and computes their generalizations in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-02 David M. Cerna , Temur Kutsia

Let A be an alphabet and W be a set of words in the free monoid A*. Let S(W) denote the Rees quotient over the ideal of A* consisting of all words that are not subwords of words in W. We call a set of words W finitely based if the monoid…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Olga Sapir

Let $M(A,I)$ be a free partially commutative monoid with involution and $G(A,I)$ be its quotient group, e.g. a right-angled Artin or Coxeter group. Given a system of word equations over $M(A,I)$ with recognizable constraints with input size…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Volker Diekert , Artur Jeż , Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Thumm

We develop a linear-algebraic framework for dimensional analysis in systems with constraints, particularly when variables are numerous or related by implicit relations so that direct elimination is impractical. By expressing both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Umpei Miyamoto

We study the language-theoretic properties of the word problem, in the sense of Duncan & Gilman, of weakly compressible monoids, as defined by Adian & Oganesian. We show that if $\mathcal{C}$ is a reversal-closed super-$\operatorname{AFL}$,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

The goal of this paper is to present examples of families of homogeneous ideals in the polynomial ring over a field that satisfy the following condition: every product of ideals of the family has a linear free resolution. As we will see,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Winfried Bruns , Aldo Conca

Parametric linear systems are linear systems of equations in which some symbolic parameters, that is, symbols that are not considered to be candidates for elimination or solution in the course of analyzing the problem, appear in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert M. Corless , Mark Giesbrecht , Leili Rafiee Sevyeri , B. David Saunders