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We show that for any finite-rank free group $\Gamma$, any word-equation in one variable of length $n$ with constants in $\Gamma$ fails to be satisfied by some element of $\Gamma$ of word-length $O(\log (n))$. By a result of the first…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Henry Bradford , Jakob Schneider , Andreas Thom

We consider two natural problems about nondeterministic finite automata. First, given such an automaton M of n states, and a length l, does M accept a word of length l? We show that the classic problem of triangle-free graph recognition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Aaron Potechin , Jeffrey Shallit

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

One of the most interesting questions about a group is if its word problem can be solved and how. The word problem in the braid group is of particular interest to topologists, algebraists and geometers, and is the target of intensive…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Garber , Shmuel Kaplan , Mina Teicher

We prove that the word problem in the mapping class group of the once-punctured surface of genus g has complexity O(|w|^2 g for |w| > log(g) where |w| is the length of the word in a (standard) set of generators. The corresponding bound in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani

Anisimov and Seifert show that a group has a regular word problem ifand only if it is finite. Muller and Schupp (together with Dunwoody's accessibility result) show that a group has context free word problem if and only if it is virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael Shapiro

We prove that the word problem of a finitely generated group $G$ is in NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) if and only if this group is a subgroup of a finitely presented group $H$ with polynomial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -C. Birget , A. Yu. Olshanskii , E. Rips , M. Sapir

We find a polynomial (n^6) isoperimetric function for Artin groups, the defining graph of which contains no edges labelled by 3. This in particular shows that even Artin groups have solvable word problem. We use small cancellation theory of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Arye Juhasz

We study the complexity of computation in finitely generated free left, right and two-sided adequate semigroups and monoids. We present polynomial time (quadratic in the RAM model of computation) algorithms to solve the word problem and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Mark Kambites , Alexandr Kazda

We study the computational complexity of the Word Problem (WP) in free solvable groups $S_{r,d}$, where $r \geq 2$ is the rank and $d \geq 2$ is the solvability class of the group. It is known that the Magnus embedding of $S_{r,d}$ into…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-08 A. Myasnikov , V. Roman'kov , A. Ushakov , A. Vershik

We prove that fundamental groups of orientable (geometrizable) 3-manifolds have a solvable conjugacy problem.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Jean-Philippe Préaux

We show that the three-dimensional layers-of-maxima problem can be solved in $o(n\log n)$ time in the word RAM model. Our algorithm runs in $O(n(\log \log n)^3)$ deterministic time or $O(n(\log\log n)^2)$ expected time and uses O(n) space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Yakov Nekrich

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 show that if the Sch\"{u}tzenberger graph of every positive word, that contains an $R$-word only once as it's subword, is finite over an Adain presentation $\langle X|u=v\rangle$, then the Sch\"{u}tzenberger graph of every positive word…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Muhammad Inam

We prove that in an arbitrary semigroup without cycles, the problem of divisibility and, therefore, the word problem is solvable.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Ara Malkhasyan

Let $m\ge 3$ be an integer. It is proved that the $m$-closure of a given solvable permutation group of degree $n$ can be constructed in time $n^{O(m)}$.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Ilia Ponomarenko , Andrey V. Vasil'ev

We present approximation algorithms with O(n^3) processing time for the minimum vertex and edge guard problems in simple polygons. It is improved from previous O(n^4) time algorithms of Ghosh. For simple polygon, there are O(n^3) visibility…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dae-Sung Jang , Sun-Il Kwon

We consider the isomorphism problem for hypergraphs taking as input two hypergraphs over the same set of vertices $V$ and a permutation group $\Gamma$ over domain $V$, and asking whether there is a permutation $\gamma \in \Gamma$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Daniel Neuen

We prove that the word problem in an Artin group G based on a diagram without A_3 or B_3 subdiagrams can be solved using a system of length preserving rewrite rules which, together with free reduction, can be used to reduce any word over…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Rubén Blasco-García , María Cumplido , Derek F. Holt , Rose Morris-Wright , Sarah Rees

We provide two new proofs of a theorem of Cooper, Long and Reid which asserts that, apart from an explicit finite list of exceptional manifolds, any compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold with non-empty boundary has large fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Lackenby