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Solutions of Word Equations Over Partially Commutative Structures

Authors Volker Diekert, Artur Jez, Manfred Kufleitner

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Volker Diekert
Artur Jez
Manfred Kufleitner

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Volker Diekert, Artur Jez, and Manfred Kufleitner. Solutions of Word Equations Over Partially Commutative Structures. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 127:1-127:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.127

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We give NSPACE(n*log(n)) algorithms solving the following decision problems. Satisfiability: Is the given equation over a free partially commutative monoid with involution (resp. a free partially commutative group) solvable? Finiteness: Are there only finitely many solutions of such an equation? PSPACE algorithms with worse complexities for the first problem are known, but so far, a PSPACE algorithm for the second problem was out of reach. Our results are much stronger: Given such an equation, its solutions form an EDT0L language effectively representable in NSPACE(n*log(n)). In particular, we give an effective description of the set of all solutions for equations with constraints in free partially commutative monoids and groups.

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  • Word equations
  • EDT0L language
  • trace monoid
  • right-angled Artin group
  • partial commutation

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