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This paper studies decision problems for semigroups that are word-hyperbolic in the sense of Duncan & Gilman. A fundamental investigation reveals that the natural definition of a `word-hyperbolic structure' has to be strengthened slightly…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Alan J. Cain , Markus Pfeiffer

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

For finitely generated nilpotent groups, we employ Mal'cev coordinates to solve several classical algorithmic problems efficiently. Computation of normal forms, the membership problem, the conjugacy problem, and computation of presentations…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jeremy Macdonald , Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Svetla Vassileva

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

Polycyclic groups are natural generalizations of cyclic groups but with more complicated algorithmic properties. They are finitely presented and the word, conjugacy, and isomorphism decision problems are all solvable in these groups.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Jonathan Gryak , Delaram Kahrobaei

A special inverse monoid is one defined by a presentation where all the defining relations have the form $r = 1$. By a result of Ivanov Margolis and Meakin the word problem for such an inverse monoid can often be reduced to the word problem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jonathan Warne

The complexity of the equation solvability problem is known for nilpotent groups, for not solvable groups and for some semidirect products of Abelian groups. We provide a new polynomial time algorithm for deciding the equation solvability…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Attila Földvári

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

We consider the class of groups whose word problem is poly-context-free; that is, an intersection of finitely many context-free languages. We show that any group which is virtually a finitely generated subgroup of a direct product of free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Tara Brough

The computational complexity of the word problem in HNN-extension of groups is studied. HNN-extension is a fundamental construction in combinatorial group theory. It is shown that the word problem for an ascending HNN-extension of a group H…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Markus Lohrey

$2$-stratifolds are a generalization of $2$-manifolds in that there are disjoint simple closed curves where several sheets meet. We show that the word problem for fundamental groups of $2$-stratifolds is solvable.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-06 J. C. Gómez-Larrañaga , F. González-Acuña , Wolfgang Heil

In this paper, the Identity Problem for certain groups, which asks if the subsemigroup generated by a given finite set of elements contains the identity element, is related to problems regarding ordered groups. Notably, the Identity Problem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Corentin Bodart , Laura Ciobanu , George Metcalfe

We construct new examples of non-nil algebras with any number of generators, which are direct sums of two locally nilpotent subalgebras. As all previously known examples, our examples are contracted semigroup algebras and the underlying…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vesselin Drensky , Lakhdar Hammoudi

We investigate the average-case complexity of decision problems for finitely generated groups, in particular the word and membership problems. Using our recent results on ``generic-case complexity'' we show that if a finitely generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Alexei Myasnikov , Paul Schupp , Vladimir Shpilrain

Adyan and Rabin showed that most properties of groups cannot be algorithmically recognized from a finite presentation alone. We prove that, if one is also given a solution to the word problem, then the class of fundamental groups of closed,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Daniel Groves , Jason Fox Manning , Henry Wilton

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

In this survey, we address the worst-case, average-case, and generic-case time complexity of the word problem and some other algorithmic problems in several classes of groups and show that it is often the case that the average-case…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Vladimir Shpilrain

Word maps provide a wealth of information about finite groups. We examine the connection between the probability distribution induced by a word map and the underlying structure of a finite group. We show that a finite group is nilpotent if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-20 William Cocke , Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho

In this work we introduce a new succinct variant of the word problem in a finitely generated group $G$, which we call the power word problem: the input word may contain powers $p^x$, where $p$ is a finite word over generators of $G$ and $x$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Markus Lohrey , Armin Weiß

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