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The survey provides an overview of the work done in the last 10 years to characterise solutions to equations in groups in terms of formal languages. We begin with the work of Ciobanu, Diekert and Elder, who showed that solutions to systems…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Laura Ciobanu , Alex Levine

We show that the full set of solutions to systems of equations and inequations in a hyperbolic group, as shortlex geodesic words (or any regular set of quasigeodesic normal forms), is an EDT0L language whose specification can be computed in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Laura Ciobanu , Murray Elder

This paper explores the nature of the solution sets of systems of equations in virtually abelian groups. We view this question from two angles. From a formal language perspective, we prove that the set of solutions to a system of equations…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Alex Evetts , Alex Levine

We show that, given an equation over a finitely generated free group, the set of all solutions in reduced words forms an effectively constructible EDT0L language. In particular, the set of all solutions in reduced words is an indexed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Laura Ciobanu , Volker Diekert , Murray Elder

We show that, given a word equation over a finitely generated free group, the set of all solutions in reduced words forms an EDT0L language. In particular, it is an indexed language in the sense of Aho. The question of whether a description…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Laura Ciobanu , Volker Diekert , Murray Elder

We show that the full set of solutions to systems of equations and inequations in a hyperbolic group, with or without torsion, as shortlex geodesic words, is an EDT0L language whose specification can be computed in $\mathsf{NSPACE}(n^2\log…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Laura Ciobanu , Murray Elder

We investigate the solution sets to equations in the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups $BS(1,k)$, $k\geq2$, and show that these sets are represented by EDT0L languages in some cases. In particular, we prove that the multiplication table of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Andrew Duncan , Alex Evetts , Derek F. Holt , Sarah Rees

We express the solutions to quadratic equations with two variables in the ring of integers using EDT0L languages. We use this to show that EDT0L languages can be used to describe the solutions to one-variable equations in the Heisenberg…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Alex Levine

In this paper we begin the systematic study of group equations with abelian predicates in the main classes of groups where solving equations is possible. We extend the line of work on word equations with length constraints, and more…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Laura Ciobanu , Albert Garreta

We study groups whose co-word problems are ET0L languages, which we call coET0L groups, using an automaton based model due to van Leeuwen, and recently studied by Bishop and Elder. In particular we prove a number of closure results for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Raad Al Kohli , Derek F. Holt , Sarah Rees

We prove that the word problem for the infinite cyclic group is not EDT0L, and obtain as a corollary that a finitely generated group with EDT0L word problem must be torsion. In addition, we show that the property of having an EDT0L word…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alex Bishop , Murray Elder , Alex Evetts , Paul Gallot , Alex Levine

To any family of languages LAN, let us associate the class, denoted $\pi(\text{LAN})$, of finitely generated groups that admit a group presentation whose set of relators forms a language in LAN. We show that the class of L-presented groups,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Laurent Bartholdi , Leon Pernak , Emmanuel Rauzy

It is well known that the problem solving equations in virtually free groups can be reduced to the problem of solving twisted word equations with regular constraints over free monoids with involution. In this paper we prove that the set of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Volker Diekert , Murray Elder

The Equation Problem in finitely presented groups asks if there exists an algorithm which determines in finite amount of time whether any given equation system has a solution or not. We show that the Equation Problem in central extensions…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Hao Liang

In this paper we generalise and unify the results and methods used by Benson, Liardet, Evetts, and Evetts & Levine, to show that rational sets in a virtually abelian group G have rational (relative) growth series with respect to any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Laura Ciobanu , Alex Evetts

One can observe that Coxeter groups and right-angled Artin groups share the same solution to the word problem. On the other hand, in his study of reflection subgroups of Coxeter groups Dyer introduces a family of groups, which we call Dyer…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Luis Paris , Mireille Soergel

In this note, we show that the satisfiability of equations and inequations with recognisable constraints is decidable in groups that are virtually direct products of finitely many hyperbolic groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Laura Ciobanu , Derek Holt , Sarah Rees

In this article, I study some classes of finitely presented groups with the aim of finding out whether the maximal metabelian quotients of the members of these classes admit finite presentations. The considered classes include those of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Ralph Strebel

L systems generalise context-free grammars by incorporating parallel rewriting, and generate languages such as EDT0L and ET0L that are strictly contained in the class of indexed languages. In this paper we show that many of the languages…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Laura Ciobanu , Murray Elder , Michal Ferov

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
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