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We give lower bounds on the complexity of the word problem of certain non-solvable groups: for a large class of non-solvable infinite groups, including in particular free groups, Grigorchuk's group and Thompson's groups, we prove that their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Laurent Bartholdi , Michael Figelius , Markus Lohrey , Armin Weiß

This is the third part of a cycle of papers devoted to the construction of a finitely presented infinite nil-semigroup satisfying the identity $x^9 = 0$. This construction answers the problem of L. N. Shevrin and M. V. Sapir, posed, for…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Ilya A. Ivanov-Pogodaev , Alexey Ya. Kanel-Belov

We determine the structure of the finite groups with the property that every cyclic subgroup is the intersection of maximal subgroups, comparing this property with the one where all proper subgroups are intersections of maximal subgroups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Andrea Lucchini

A transitive permutation group is semiprimitive if each of its normal subgroups is transitive or semiregular. Interest in this class of groups is motivated by two sources: problems arising in universal algebra related to collapsing monoids…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Michael Giudici , Luke Morgan

The Krohn-Rhodes Theorem proves that a finite semigroup divides a wreath product of groups and aperiodic semigroups. Krohn-Rhodes complexity equals the minimal number of groups that are needed. Determining an algorithm to compute complexity…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Stuart Margolis , John Rhodes , Anne Schilling

In the SetDisjointness problem, a collection of $m$ sets $S_1,S_2,...,S_m$ from some universe $U$ is preprocessed in order to answer queries on the emptiness of the intersection of some two query sets from the collection. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Isaac Goldstein , Moshe Lewenstein , Ely Porat

In this paper, we prove that the numerical-semigroup-gap counting problem is #NP-complete as a main theorem. A numerical semigroup is an additive semigroup over the set of all nonnegative integers. A gap of a numerical semigroup is defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Shunichi Matsubara

For a family $(A_q)_{q\in Q}$ of subsets of a semigroup, the product intersection set records those exponents $h \in \mathbb{N}$ for which the $h$-fold product set of the intersection, $(\bigcap_q A_q)^h$, is equal to $\bigcap_q A_q^h$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Wouter van Doorn , Pietro Monticone , Quanyu Tang

Randomized higher-order computation can be seen as being captured by a lambda calculus endowed with a single algebraic operation, namely a construct for binary probabilistic choice. What matters about such computations is the probability of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ugo Dal Lago , Claudia Faggian , Simona Ronchi Della Rocca

We consider two decision problems in infinite groups. The first problem is Subgroup Intersection: given two finitely generated subgroups $\langle \mathcal{G} \rangle, \langle \mathcal{H} \rangle$ of a group $G$, decide whether the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Ruiwen Dong

We consider various decision problems for automatic semigroups, which involve the provision of an automatic structure as part of the problem instance. With mild restrictions on the automatic structure, which seem to be necessary to make the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Kambites , Friedrich Otto

We consider Parikh images of languages accepted by non-deterministic finite automata and context-free grammars; in other words, we treat the languages in a commutative way --- we do not care about the order of letters in the accepted word,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Eryk Kopczyński

We study ordinal embedding relaxations in the realm of parameterized complexity. We prove the existence of a quadratic kernel for the {\sc Betweenness} problem parameterized above its tight lower bound, which is stated as follows. For a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Matthias Mnich , Anders Yeo

In this paper we study the parameterized complexity of two well-known permutation group problems which are NP-complete. 1. Given a permutation group G=<S>, subgroup of $S_n$, and a parameter $k$, find a permutation $\pi$ in G such that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Vikraman Arvind

We consider semigroup algorithmic problems in finitely generated metabelian groups. Our paper focuses on three decision problems introduced by Choffrut and Karhum\"{a}ki (2005): the Identity Problem (does a semigroup contain a neutral…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Ruiwen Dong

We introduce the notion of semigroup with a tight ideal series and investigate their closures in semitopological semigroups, particularly inverse semigroups with continuous inversion. As a corollary we show that the symmetric inverse…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-19 Oleg Gutik , Jimmie Lawson , Dušan Repovš

In this paper we characterize the congruence associated to the direct sum of all irreducible representations of a finite semigroup over an arbitrary field, generalizing results of Rhodes for the field of complex numbers. Applications are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Jorge Almeida , Stuart Margolis , Benjamin Steinberg , Mikhail Volkov

We consider the growth, order, and finiteness problems for automaton (semi)groups. We propose new implementations and compare them with the existing ones. As a result of extensive experimentations, we propose some conjectures on the order…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Ines Klimann , Jean Mairesse , Matthieu Picantin

In this paper, we describe an algorithm for computing the left, right, or 2-sided congruences of a finitely presented semigroup or monoid with finitely many classes, and an alternative algorithm when the finitely presented semigroup or…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Marina Anagnostopoulou-Merkouri , Reinis Cirpons , James D. Mitchell , Maria Tsalakou

We study some basic algorithmic problems concerning the intersection of tropical hypersurfaces in general dimension: deciding whether this intersection is nonempty, whether it is a tropical variety, and whether it is connected, as well as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Theobald