@InProceedings{bell_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.83, author = {Bell, Paul C. and Potapov, Igor and Semukhin, Pavel}, title = {{On the Mortality Problem: From Multiplicative Matrix Equations to Linear Recurrence Sequences and Beyond}}, booktitle = {44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)}, pages = {83:1--83:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-117-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {138}, editor = {Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.83}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110279}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.83}, annote = {Keywords: Linear recurrence sequences, Skolem’s problem, mortality problem, matrix equations, primary decomposition theorem, Baker’s theorem} }