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The set of natural integers is fundamental for at least two reasons: it is the free induction algebra over the empty set (and at such allows definitions of maps by primitive recursion) and it is the free monoid over a one-element set, the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Laurent Poinsot

In this article, we study word equations in free semigroups and the conjecture that the existence of infinitely many solutions entails the existence of solutions with arbitrarily large exponent of periodicity. We examine this question in…

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We study rational Cherednik algebras over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. We first prove several general results about category O, and then focus on rational Cherednik algebras associated to the general and special…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Martina Balagovic , Harrison Chen

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

The compressed word problem for a finitely generated monoid M asks whether two given compressed words over the generators of M represent the same element of M. For string compression, straight-line programs, i.e., context-free grammars that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Markus Lohrey

This is the first installment of an exposition of an ACL2 formalization of elementary linear algebra, focusing on aspects of the subject that apply to matrices over an arbitrary commutative ring with identity, in anticipation of a future…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 David Russinoff

We classify nontrivial, nonnegative, positively homogeneous solutions of the equation \begin{equation*} \Delta u=\gamma u^{\gamma-1} \end{equation*} in the plane. The problem is motivated by the analysis of the classical Alt-Phillips free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Serena Dipierro , Aram Karakhanyan , Enrico Valdinoci

This paper considers the problem of testing whether there exists a non-negative solution to a possibly under-determined system of linear equations with known coefficients. This hypothesis testing problem arises naturally in a number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-09-16 Zheng Fang , Andres Santos , Azeem M. Shaikh , Alexander Torgovitsky

Generalization problems in languages with binders involve computing the most common structure between expressions while respecting bound variable renaming and freshness constraints. These problems often lack a least general solution.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho , Manfred Schmidt-Schauss , Alexander Baumgartner , Temur Kutsia

Hermitian linear matrix pencils are ubiquitous in control theory, operator systems, semidefinite optimization, and real algebraic geometry. This survey reviews the fundamental features of the matricial solution set of a linear matrix…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Jurij Volčič

Many formal languages include binders as well as operators that satisfy equational axioms, such as commutativity. Here we consider the nominal language, a general formal framework which provides support for the representation of binders,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ali K. Caires-Santos , Maribel Fernández , Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho

We introduce linear programs encoding regular expressions of finite languages. We show that, given a language, the optimum value of the associated linear program is a lower bound on the size of any regular expression of the language.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Hamoon Mousavi

In this paper, we present and analyze methods for solving a system of linear equations over idempotent semifields. The first method is based on the pseudo-inverse of the system matrix. We then present a specific version of Cramer's rule…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Fateme Olia , Shaban Ghalandarzadeh , Amirhossein Amiraslani , Sedighe Jamshidvand

We propose a way of associating to each finitely generated monoid or semigroup a formal language, called its loop problem. In the case of a group, the loop problem is essentially the same as the word problem in the sense of combinatorial…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Mark Kambites

In this paper we prove several results on normal forms for linear displacement context-free grammars. The results themselves are rather simple and use well-known techniques, but they are extensively used in more complex constructions.…

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The problem of representing the atomic elements of language in modern neural learning systems is one of the central challenges of the field of natural language processing. I present a survey of the distributional, compositional, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yuval Pinter

A linear quaternionic equation in one quaternionic variable q is of the form $a_1 q b_1+a_2 q b_2+ ... +a_m q b_m = c$, where the $a_i, b_j, c$ are given quaternionic coefficients. If introducing basis elements $\bf i, j, k$ of pure…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Changpeng Shao , Hongbo Li , Lei Huang

A word equation with one variable in a free group is given as $U = V$, where both $U$ and $V$ are words over the alphabet of generators of the free group and $X, X^{-1}$, for a fixed variable $X$. An element of the free group is a solution…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Robert Ferens , Artur Jeż

We are interested in finding a solution to the tensor complementarity problem with a strong M-tensor, which we call the M-tensor complementarity problem. We propose a lower dimensional linear equation approach to solve that problem. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Dong-Hui Li , Cui-Dan Chen , Hong-Bo Guan

We consider the inverse problem of determining a general semilinear term appearing in nonlinear parabolic equations. For this purpose, we derive a new criterion that allows to prove global recovery of some general class of semilinear terms…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Yavar Kian , Gunther Uhlmann