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This paper revisits the solution of the word problem for $\omega$-terms interpreted over finite aperiodic semigroups, obtained by J. McCammond. The original proof of correctness of McCammond's algorithm, based on normal forms for such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jorge Almeida , José Carlos Costa , Marc Zeitoun

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

The word problem of a group is a very important question. The word problem in the braid group is of particular interest for topologists, algebraists and geometers. In previouse article we have looked at the braid group from a topological…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Kaplan , M. Teicher

We investigate the orbits of automaton semigroups and groups to obtain algorithmic and structural results, both for general automata but also for some special subclasses. First, we show that a more general version of the finiteness problem…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Daniele D'Angeli , Dominik Francoeur , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter

The isomorphism problem for infinite finitely presented groups is probably the hardest among standard algorithmic problems in group theory. Classes of groups where it has been completely solved are nilpotent groups, hyperbolic groups, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Vladimir Shpilrain

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

Let E be a number field and G be a finite group. Let A be any O_E-order of full rank in the group algebra E[G] and X be a (left) A-lattice. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for X to be free of given rank d over A. In the case…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-28 Werner Bley , Henri Johnston

We study membership problems in HNN extensions of free groups and then apply these results to solve the word problem in certain families of one-relator inverse monoids. In more detail, we consider HNN extensions where the defining…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jonathan Warne

We show that the freeness problems for automaton semigroups and for automaton monoids are undecidable and, thereby, solve an open problem listed by Grigorchuk, Nekrashevych and Sush\-chansk\u{\i}i. We achieve this using a new technique to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Daniele D'Angeli , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter

We construct a finitely presented (two-sided) totally orderable group with insoluble word problem.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 V. V. Bludov , A. M. W. Glass

We consider decidability problems in self-similar semigroups, and in particular in semigroups of automatic transformations of $X^*$. We describe algorithms answering the word problem, and bound its complexity under some additional…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Laurent Bartholdi

In this article we survey recent progress in the algorithmic theory of matrix semigroups. The main objective in this area of study is to construct algorithms that decide various properties of finitely generated subsemigroups of an infinite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Ruiwen Dong

We show that every countable group H with solvable word problem (=computable group) can be subnormally embedded into a 2-generated group G which also has solvable word problem. Moreover, the membership problem for H < G is also solvable. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Arman Darbinyan

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new family of semigroups - the free projection-generated regular $*$-semigroups - and initiate their systematic study. Such a semigroup $PG(P)$ is constructed from a projection algebra $P$, using…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-11 James East , Robert D. Gray , P. A. Azeef Muhammed , Nik Ruškuc

William W. Boone and Graham Higman proved that a finitely generated group has soluble word problem if and only if it can be embedded in a simple group that can be embedded in a finitely presented group. We prove the exact analogue for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-10 A. M. W. Glass

We investigate the computational complexity for determining various properties of a finite transformation semigroup given by generators. We introduce a simple framework to describe transformation semigroup properties that are decidable in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Lukas Fleischer , Trevor Jack

This is the first of a sequence of papers devoted to studying the link between the complexity of the Word Problem for a finitely generated recursively presented group $G$ and the isoperimetric functions of the finitely presented groups in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Francis Wagner

Let $G$ be a unitriangular matrix group of nilpotency class at most ten. We show that the Identity Problem (does a semigroup contain the identity matrix?) and the Group Problem (is a semigroup a group?) are decidable in polynomial time for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ruiwen Dong

Embeddings of word structures into matrix semigroups provide a natural bridge between combinatorics on words and linear algebra. However, low-dimensional matrix semigroups impose strong structural restrictions on possible embeddings.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Paul C. Bell , George Kenison , Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

An element e of an ordered semigroup $(S,\cdot,\leq)$ is called an ordered idempotent if $e\leq e^2$. We call an ordered semigroup $S$ idempotent ordered semigroup if every element of $S$ is an ordered idempotent. Every idempotent semigroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-27 K. Hansda