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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

This note addresses the issue as to which ceers can be realized by word problems of computably enumerable (or, simply, c.e.) structures (such as c.e. semigroups, groups, and rings), where being realized means to fall in the same…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Valentino Delle Rose , Luca San Mauro , Andrea Sorbi

We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined by parity conditions. We consider three qualitative decision problems: (i) the positive decision problem asks whether there is a word that is accepted with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mathieu Tracol

This paper is about topological dynamics of cellular automata on finitely generated groups. We tackle the problem of determining for which group sensitivity to initial conditions is equivalent to the absence of equicontinuity points…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jade Angela Hope Audouard , Guillaume Theyssier

Let H be a pseudovariety of groups in which the kappa-word problem is decidable. Here, kappa denotes the canonical implicit signature, which consists of the multiplication and the (omega-1)-power. We prove that the kappa-word problem is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Célia Borlido

We show that a wide variety of non-linear cellular automata (CAs) can be decomposed into a quasidirect product of linear ones. These CAs can be predicted by parallel circuits of depth O(log^2 t) using gates with binary inputs, or O(log t)…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Cristopher Moore

The first part of the paper centers in the study of embeddability between partially commutative groups. In [KK], for a finite simplicial graph $\Gamma$, the authors introduce an infinite, locally infinite graph $\Gamma^e$, called the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Montserrat Casals-Ruiz

It is shown that the knapsack problem (introduced by Myasnikov, Nikolaev, and Ushakov) is undecidable in a direct product of sufficiently many copies of the discrete Heisenberg group (which is nilpotent of class 2). Moreover, for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Daniel König , Markus Lohrey , Georg Zetzsche

Let $\alpha$ be a coprime automorphism of a group $G$ of prime order and let $P$ be an $\alpha$-invariant Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$. Assume that $p\notin \pi(C_G(\alpha))$. Firstly, we prove that $G$ is $p$-nilpotent if and only if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-08 M. Yasir Kızmaz

In [6], a constraint on invariant measures of bi-permutative cellular automata has been observed: fixed values at the positive indices determine almost-surely a uniform conditional probability on the subset of values of positive conditional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Matan Tal

We study the complexity relationship between three models of unbounded memory automata: nu-automata ($\nu$-A), Layered Memory Automata (LaMA)and History-Register Automata (HRA). These are all extensions of finite state automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clément Bertrand , Cinzia Di Giusto , Hanna Klaudel , Damien Regnault

Both cellular automata (CA) and lattice-gas automata (LG) provide finite algorithmic presentations for certain classes of infinite dynamical systems studied by symbolic dynamics; it is customary to use the term `cellular automaton' or…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-09-11 Tommaso Toffoli , Silvio Capobianco , Patrizia Mentrasti

We show that the automorphism group of a one-dimensional full shift (the group of reversible cellular automata) does not satisfy the Tits alternative. That is, we construct a finitely-generated subgroup which is not virtually solvable yet…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Ville Salo

We explore a natural class of semigroups that have word problem decidable by finite state automata. Among the main results are invariance of this property under change of generators, invariance under basic algebraic constructions and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Max Neunhöffer , Markus Pfeiffer , Nik Ruskuc

We consider a computational model which is known as set automata. The set automata are one-way finite automata with an additional storage---the set. There are two kinds of set automata---the deterministic and the nondeterministic ones. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Alexander A. Rubtsov , Mikhail N. Vyalyi

We study the language-theoretic aspects of the word problem, in the sense of Duncan & Gilman, of free products of semigroups and monoids. First, we provide algebraic tools for studying classes of languages known as super-AFLs, which…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

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

Power circuits have been introduced in 2012 by Myasnikov, Ushakov and Won as a data structure for non-elementarily compressed integers supporting the arithmetic operations addition and $(x,y) \mapsto x\cdot 2^y$. The same authors applied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Caroline Mattes , Armin Weiß

In this paper, we analyze the algebraic structure of some null boundary as well as some periodic boundary 2-D Cellular Automata (CA) rules by introducing a new matrix multiplication operation using only AND, OR instead of most commonly used…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-08-12 Sudhakar Sahoo , Sanjaya Sahoo , Birendra Kumar Nayak , Pabitra Pal Choudhury

We study the word and conjugacy problems in lacunary hyperbolic groups (briefly, LHG). In particular, we describe a necessary and sufficient condition for decidability of the word problem in LHG. Then, based on the graded small-cancellation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Arman Darbinyan