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Let $G$ be a Garside group with Garside element $\Delta$, and let $\Delta^m$ be the minimal positive central power of $\Delta$. An element $g\in G$ is said to be 'periodic' if some power of it is a power of $\Delta$. In this paper, we study…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Eon-Kyung Lee , Sang-Jin Lee

The conjugacy problem for a finitely generated group $G$ is the two-variable problem of deciding for an arbitrary pair $(u,v)$ of elements of $G$, whether or not $u$ is conjugate to $v$ in $G$. We construct examples of finitely generated,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Alexei Miasnikov , Paul E. Schupp

In sequential hypothesis testing, Generalized Binary Search (GBS) greedily chooses the test with the highest information gain at each step. It is known that GBS obtains the gold standard query cost of $O(\log n)$ for problems satisfying the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Stephen Mussmann , Percy Liang

Artin's braid groups have been recently suggested as a new source for public-key cryptography. In this paper we propose the first undeniable signature schemes using the conjugacy problem and the decomposition problem in the braid groups…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tony Thomas , Arbind Kumar Lal

In this note, we provide a (super-exponential time) algorithm to solve the generalized conjugacy problem in relatively hyperbolic groups, given solvability of the generalized conjugacy problem in each of the parabolic subgroups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Chris Karpinski

In this paper we provide an alternative solution to a result by Juh\'{a}sz that the twisted conjugacy problem for odd dihedral Artin groups is solvable, that is, groups with presentation $G(m) = \langle a,b \; | \; _{m}(a,b) = {}_{m}(b,a)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Gemma Crowe

We consider the problem of finding sparse solutions to a system of underdetermined nonlinear system of equations. The methods are based on a Gauss-Newton approach with line search where the search direction is found by solving a linearized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Mårten Gulliksson , Anna Oleynik

The tree-depth problem can be seen as finding an elimination tree of minimum height for a given input graph $G$. We introduce a bicriteria generalization in which additionally the width of the elimination tree needs to be bounded by some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Piotr Borowiecki , Dariusz Dereniowski , Dorota Osula

In the recently emerging field of nonabelian group-based cryptography, a prominently used one-way function is the Conjugacy Search Problem (CSP), and two important classes of platform groups are polycyclic and matrix groups. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Simran Tinani , Carlo Matteotti , Joachim Rosenthal

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

Xu and Wu (2001) defined the \emph{generalized wordlength pattern} $(A_1, ..., A_k)$ of an arbitrary fractional factorial design (or orthogonal array) on $k$ factors. They gave a coding-theoretic proof of the property that the design has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Jay H. Beder , Jesse S. Beder

Consider the following generalization of the classic binary search problem: a searcher is required to find a hidden vertex $x$ in a tree $T$. To do so, they iteratively perform queries to an oracle, each about a chosen vertex $v$. After…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Michał Szyfelbein

Doubly intractable problems occur when both the likelihood and the posterior are available only in unnormalised form, with computationally intractable normalisation constants. Bayesian inference then typically requires direct approximation…

We prove that the conjugacy problem in the first Grigorchuck group $\Gamma$ can be solved in linear time. Furthermore, the problem to decide if a list of elements $w_1,\ldots,w_k\in\Gamma$ contains a pair of conjugate elements can be solved…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Mitra Modi , Mathew Seedhom , Alexander Ushakov

In our preceding papers we started considering the categories of tangles with flat G-connections in their complements, where G is a simple complex algebraic group. The braiding (or the commutativity constraint) in such categories satisfies…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Kashaev , N. Reshetikhin

Combinatorial optimization lies at the core of many real-world problems. Especially since the rise of graph neural networks (GNNs), the deep learning community has been developing solvers that derive solutions to NP-hard problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Maximilian Böther , Otto Kißig , Martin Taraz , Sarel Cohen , Karen Seidel , Tobias Friedrich

Learning in networks of binary synapses is known to be an NP-complete problem. A combined stochastic local search strategy in the synaptic weight space is constructed to further improve the learning performance of a single random walker. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-18 Haiping Huang , Haijun Zhou

We study the notion of twisted conjugacy separability (essentially introduced in our previous paper for a proof of twisted version of Burnside-Frobenius theorem) and some related properties. We give examples of groups with and without this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Alexander Fel'shtyn , Evgenij Troitsky

Query evaluation over probabilistic databases is known to be intractable in many cases, even in data complexity, i.e., when the query is fixed. Although some restrictions of the queries [19] and instances [4] have been proposed to lower the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet , Pierre Senellart

We establish upper bounds on the lengths of minimal conjugators in 2-step nilpotent groups. These bounds exploit the existence of small integral solutions to systems of linear Diophantine equations. We prove that in some cases these bounds…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Martin R. Bridson , Timothy R. Riley