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We consider fine G-gradings on M_n(C) (i.e. gradings of the matrix algebra over the complex numbers where each component is 1 dimensional). Groups which provide such a grading are known to be solvable. We consider the T-ideal of G-graded…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-10-31 Eli Aljadeff , Darrell Haile , Michael Natapov

An algebra is called a GI-algebra if its group of units satisfies a group identity. We provide positive support for the following two open problems. 1. Does every algebraic GI-algebra satisfy a polynomial identity? 2. Is every algebraically…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-04-12 Eric Jespers , David Riley , Salvatore Siciliano

Aiming to provide weak as possible axiomatic assumptions in which one can develop basic linear algebra, we give a uniform and integral version of the short propositional proofs for the determinant identities demonstrated over $GF(2)$ in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Iddo Tzameret , Stephen A. Cook

(Free-abelian)-by-free, self-similar groups generated by finite self-similar sets of tree automorphisms and having unsolvable conjugacy problem are constructed. Along the way, orbit undecidable, free subgroups of GL_d(Z), for d > 5, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Zoran Sunic , Enric Ventura

In 1968, John Thompson proved that a finite group G is solvable if and only if every 2-generator subgroup of G is solvable. In this paper, we prove that solvability of a finite group G is guaranteed by a seemingly weaker condition: G is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Silvio Dolfi , Robert Guralnick , Marcel Herzog , Cheryl Praeger

A subset S of a group G invariably generates G if G = <s^(g(s)) | s in S> for each choice of g(s) in G, s in S. In this paper we study invariable generation of infinite groups, with emphasis on linear groups. Our main result shows that a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-18 William M. Kantor , Alexander Lubotzky , Aner Shalev

A permutoid is a set of partial permutations that contains the identity and is such that partial compositions, when defined, have at most one extension in the set. In 2004 Peter Cameron conjectured that there can exist no algorithm that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Martin R. Bridson , Henry Wilton

In 1960, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Fuchs posed the problem of determining which groups $G$ are realizable as the group of units in some ring $R$. In \cite{chebolu2022fuchs}, we investigated the following variant of Fuchs' problem, for abelian groups:…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Sunil K. Chebolu , Keir Lockridge

Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $f_1, \ldots, f_r$ be polynomials in $n^2$ indeterminates over an algebraically closed field $K$. We describe an algorithm to decide if the invertible matrices contained in the variety of $f_1, \ldots,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-25 John Abbott , Bettina Eick

The concept of a C-approximable group, for a class of finite groups C, is a common generalization of the concepts of a sofic, weakly sofic, and linear sofic group. Glebsky raised the question whether all groups are approximable by finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Nikolay Nikolov , Jakob Schneider , Andreas Thom

For a variety of finite groups $\mathbf H$, let $\overline{\mathbf H}$ denote the variety of finite semigroups all of whose subgroups lie in $\mathbf H$. We give a characterization of the subsets of a finite semigroup that are pointlike…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Samuel J. v. Gool , B. Steinberg

Given a countable group $G$, we develop a method to construct an overgroup $H$ that is finitely generated, highly transitive and mixed identity free. Our construction can be controlled to ensure that some fundamental group theoretic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 James Hyde , Yash Lodha

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 show that the compressed word problem in a finitely-generated fully residually free group (F -group) is decidable in polynomial time, and use the result to show that the word problem in the automorphism group of such a group is decidable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Jeremy Macdonald

We study finite semigroups of $n \times n$ matrices with rational entries. Such semigroups provide a rich generalization of transition monoids of unambiguous (and, in particular, deterministic) finite automata. In this paper we determine…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Stefan Kiefer , Andrew Ryzhikov

We give a simple algorithm to solve the subgroup membership problem for virtually free groups. For a fixed virtually free group with a fixed generating set $X$, the subgroup membership problem is uniformly solvable in time $O(n\log^*(n))$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Sam Cookson , Nicholas Touikan

We study metabelian groups $G$ given by full rank finite presentations $\langle A \mid R \rangle_{\mathcal{M}}$ in the variety $\mathcal{M}$ of metabelian groups. We prove that $G$ is a product of a free metabelian subgroup of rank…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Albert Garreta , Leire Legarreta , Alexei Miasnikov , Denis Ovchinnikov

The study of the complexity of the equation satisfiability problem in finite groups had been initiated by Goldmann and Russell (2002) where they showed that this problem is in polynomial time for nilpotent groups while it is NP-complete for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Paweł Idziak , Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski , Armin Weiß

In this paper two algorithms solving circuit satisfiability problem over supernilpotent algebras are presented. The first one is deterministic and is faster than fastest previous algorithm presented by Aichinger. The second one is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

A generalized Baumslag-Solitar group (GBS group) is a finitely generated group $G$ which acts on a tree with all edge and vertex stabilizers infinite cyclic. We show that Out(G) either contains non-abelian free groups or is virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Gilbert Levitt