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Let $G$ be a finitely generated group, and let $\Sigma$ be a finite subset that generates $G$ as a monoid. The \emph{word problem of $G$ with respect to $\Sigma$} consists of all words in the free monoid $\Sigma^{\ast}$ that are equal to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Rose Berns-Zieve , Dana Fry , Johnny Gillings , Hannah Hoganson , Heather Mathews

The most developed aspect of the theory of finite semigroups is their classification in pseudovarieties. The main motivation for investigating such entities comes from their connection with the classification of regular languages via…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Jorge Almeida

The main results of this paper is to give a complete characterization of the automaticity of one-relator semigroups with length less than or equal to three. Let $S=sgp\langle A|u=v\rangle$ be a semigroup generated by a set…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Yuqun Chen , Haibin Wu , Honglian Xie

Motivated by the study of the conjugacy problem for outer automorphism of free groups, we develop the algorithmic theory of the free-by-cyclic group produced by unipotent linearly growing automorphisms of f.g. free groups. We compute…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 François Dahmani , Nicholas Touikan

We show that the word problem for an amalgam $[S_1,S_2;U,\omega_1,\omega_2]$ of inverse semigroups may be undecidable even if we assume $S_1$ and $S_2$ (and therefore $U$) to have finite $\mathcal{R}$-classes and $\omega_1,\omega_2$ to be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Emanuele Rodaro , Pedro V. Silva

We prove that the class of finitely presented inverse monoids whose Sch\"utzenberger graphs are quasi-isometric to trees has a uniformly solvable word problem, furthermore, the languages of their Sch\"utzenberger automata are context-free.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Robert D. Gray , Pedro V. Silva , Nóra Szakács

We prove that every unconditionally closed subset of a free group is algebraic, thereby answering affirmatively a 76 years old problem of Markov for free groups. In modern terminology, this means that Markov and Zariski topologies coincide…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Dmitri Shakhmatov , Víctor Hugo Yañez

Recent algorithmic advances in algebraic automata theory drew attention to semigroupoids (semicategories). These are mathematical descriptions of typed computational processes, but they have not been studied systematically in the context of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

We show that one can define and effectively compute Stallings graphs for quasi-convex subgroups of automatic groups (\textit{e.g.} hyperbolic groups or right-angled Artin groups). These Stallings graphs are finite labeled graphs, which are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Miasnikov , Pascal Weil

This paper studies automatic structures for subsemigroups of Baumslag--Solitar semigroups (that is, semigroups presented by $\ < x,y \mid (yx^m, x^ny)\ >$, where $m$ and $n$ are natural numbers). A geometric argument (a rarity in the field…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Alan J. Cain

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 study the class of monoids that arise as the submonoid of right units of finitely presented special inverse monoids (SIMs). Gray and Ru\v{s}kuc (2024) gave the first example of a finitely presented SIM whose submonoid of right units does…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Igor Dolinka , Robert D. Gray

This paper investigates the class of finitely presented monoids defined by homogeneous (length-preserving) relations from a computational perspective. The properties of admitting a finite complete rewriting system, having finite derivation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Alan J. Cain , Robert Gray , António Malheiro

Post's Correspondence Problem (the PCP) is a classical decision problem in theoretical computer science that asks whether for pairs of free monoid morphisms $g, h\colon\Sigma^*\to\Delta^*$ there exists any non-trivial $x\in\Sigma^*$ such…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Laura Ciobanu , Alex Levine , Alan D. Logan

This paper continues the functional approach to the P-versus-NP problem, begun in [1]. Here we focus on the monoid RM_2^P of right-ideal morphisms of the free monoid, that have polynomial input balance and polynomial time-complexity. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-12 J. C. Birget

When decomposing a finite semigroup into a wreath product of groups and aperiodic semigroups, complexity measures the minimal number of groups that are needed. Determining an algorithm to compute complexity has been an open problem for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Stuart Margolis , John Rhodes , Anne Schilling

In this paper we investigate the word problem of the free Burnside semigroup satisfying x^2=x^3 and having two generators. Elements of this semigroup are classes of equivalent words. A natural way to solve the word problem is to select a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 A. N. Plyushchenko , A. M. Shur

We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: it asks whether a given probabilistic automaton accepts words with probability arbitrarily close to 1. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nathanaël Fijalkow

We investigate the decidability of the emptiness problem for three classes of distributed automata. These devices operate on finite directed graphs, acting as networks of identical finite-state machines that communicate in an infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Antti Kuusisto , Fabian Reiter

In this paper we investigate the special automata over finite rank free groups and estimate asymptotic characteristics of sets they accept. We show how one can decompose an arbitrary regular subset of a finite rank free group into disjoint…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Elizaveta Frenkel , Vladimir N. Remeslennikov
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