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We prove that for a suitably nice class of random substitutions, their corresponding subshifts have automorphism groups that contain an infinite simple subgroup and a copy of the automorphism group of a full shift. Hence, they are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Robbert Fokkink , Dan Rust , Ville Salo

We give new and improved results on the freeness of subgroups of free profinite groups: A subgroup containing the normal closure of a finite word in the elements of a basis is free; Every infinite index subgroup of a finitely generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Mark Shusterman

The automorphism group of a particular free spectrahedron is determined via a novel argument involving algebraic methods.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Munir Ben Jemaa , Scott McCullough

We study two subclasses of the class of automatic structures: automatic structures of polynomial growth and Presburger structures. We present algebraic characterisations of the groups and the equivalence structures in these two classes.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Achim Blumensath

We introduce a density model for random quotients of a free product of finitely generated groups. We prove that a random quotient in this model has the following properties with overwhelming probability: if the density is below $1/2$, the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Eduard Einstein , Suraj Krishna M S , MurphyKate Montee , Thomas Ng , Markus Steenbock

A finitely generated group admits a decomposition, called its Grushko decomposition, into a free product of freely indecomposable groups. There is an algorithm to construct the Grushko decomposition of a finite graph of finite rank free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Guo-An Diao , Mark Feighn

Let G be any finitely generated infinite group. Denote by K(G) the FC-centre of G, i.e., the subgroup of all elements of G whose centralizers are of finite index in G. Let QI(G) denote the group of quasi-isometries of G with respect to word…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aniruddha C. Naolekar , Parameswaran Sankaran

We give an easily checkable algebraic condition which implies that two elements of a finitely generated free group are members of distinct doubly-twisted conjugacy classes with respect to a pair of homomorphisms. We further show that this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-03 P. Christopher Staecker

We consider word automaticity for groups that are nilpotent of class $2$ and have exponent a prime $p$. We show that the infinitely generated free group in this variety is not word automatic. In contrast, the infinite extra-special…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Andre Nies , Frank Stephan

In this article we construct asynchronous and sometimes synchronous automatic structures for amalgamated products and HNN extensions of groups that are strongly asynchronously (or synchronously) coset automatic with respect to the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Susan Hermiller , Derek F Holt , Tim Susse , Sarah Rees

Elder, Kambites, and Ostheimer showed that if the word problem of a finitely generated group $H$ is accepted by a $G$-automaton for an abelian group $G$, then $H$ is virtually abelian. We give a new, elementary, and purely combinatorial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Takao Yuyama

We give a simpler proof using automata theory of a recent result of Kapovich, Weidmann and Myasnikov according to which so-called benign graphs of groups preserve decidability of the generalized word problem. These include graphs of groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Markus Lohrey , Benjamin Steinberg

A natural operation on numerical semigroups is taking a quotient by a positive integer. If $\mathcal S$ is a quotient of a numerical semigroup with $k$ generators, we call $\mathcal S$ a $k$-quotient. We give a necessary condition for a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Tristram Bogart , Christopher O'Neill , Kevin Woods

A classical result of Schreier states that nontrivial finitely generated normal subgroups of free groups are of finite index, that is, free groups can only quotient to finite groups with finitely generated kernel. In this note we extend…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Montserrat Casals-Ruiz , Jone Lopez de Gamiz Zearra

In this paper, we classify all finite groups $G$ which have the following property: for all subsets $A \subseteq G$, we have $|AA^{-1}| = |A^{-1}A|$. This question is motivated by the problem in additive combinatorics of More Sums Than…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Haran Mouli , Pramana Saldin

This text, Chapter 23 in the "AutoMathA" handbook, is devoted to the study of rational subsets of groups, with particular emphasis on the automata-theoretic approach to finitely generated subgroups of free groups. Indeed, Stallings'…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-08 Laurent Bartholdi , Pedro V. Silva

To any finite ordered subset and any finite partition of a group a set of tuples of positive integers, named as configurations, is associated that describes the group's behavior. The present paper provides an exposition of this notion and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Akram Yousofzadeh

We study the existence of automatic presentations for various algebraic structures. An automatic presentation of a structure is a description of the universe of the structure by a regular set of words, and the interpretation of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Andre Nies , Sasha Rubin , Frank Stephan

We give a characterisation of quantum automorphism groups of trees. In particular, for every tree, we show how to iteratively construct its quantum automorphism group using free products and free wreath products. This can be considered a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , Prem Nigam Kar , David E. Roberson , Simon Schmidt , Peter Zeman

A topological gyrogroup is a gyrogroup endowed with a compatible topology such that the multiplication is jointly continuous and the inverse is continuous. In this paper, we study the quotient gyrogroups in topological gyrogroups with…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Ying-Ying Jin , Li-Hong Xie