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20142024
most citedOn the Complexity of the Word Problem for Automaton Semigroups and Automaton Groups

13 citations · 31 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.FL2024

The Finiteness Problem for Automaton Semigroups of Extended Bounded Activity

Daniele D'Angeli, Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

We extend the notion of activity for automaton semigroups and monoids introduced by Bartholdi, Godin, Klimann and Picantin to a more general setting. Their activity notion was alre…

cs.FL2024

The Freeness Problem for Automaton Semigroups

Daniele D'Angeli, Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

We show that the freeness problems for automaton semigroups and for automaton monoids are undecidable and, thereby, solve an open problem listed by Grigorchuk, Nekrashevych and Sus…

cs.FL2023★ 1 cited

The Word Problem for Finitary Automaton Groups

Maximilian Kotowsky, Jan Philipp Wächter

A finitary automaton group is a group generated by an invertible, deterministic finite-state letter-to-letter transducer whose only cycles are self-loops at an identity state. We s…

math.GR2022

The Self-Similarity of Free Semigroups and Groups

Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

We give a survey on results regarding self-similar and automaton presentations of free groups and semigroups and related products. Furthermore, we discuss open problems and results…

math.GR2020★ 1 cited

Preserving self-similarity in free products of semigroups

Tara Macalister Brough, Jan Philipp Wächter, Janette Welker

We improve on earlier results on the closure under free products of the class of automaton semigroups. We consider partial automata and show that the free product of two self-simil…

math.GR2019★ 3 cited

On Orbits and the Finiteness of Bounded Automaton Groups

Ievgen Bondarenko, Jan Philipp Wächter

We devise an algorithm which, given a bounded automaton A, decides whether the group generated by A is finite. The solution comes from a description of the infinite sequences havin…

cs.FL2019★ 1 cited

An Automaton Group with PSPACE-Complete Word Problem

Jan Philipp Wächter, Armin Weiß

We construct an automaton group with a PSPACE-complete word problem, proving a conjecture due to Steinberg. Additionally, the constructed group has a provably more difficult, namel…

cs.FL2017★ 9 cited

Automaton Semigroups and Groups: On the Undecidability of Problems Related to Freeness and Finiteness

Daniele D'Angeli, Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

In this paper, we study algorithmic problems for automaton semigroups and automaton groups related to freeness and finiteness. In the course of this study, we also exhibit some con…

cs.FL2016★ 13 cited

On the Complexity of the Word Problem for Automaton Semigroups and Automaton Groups

Daniele D'Angeli, Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

In this paper, we study the word problem for automaton semigroups and automaton groups from a complexity point of view. As an intermediate concept between automaton semigroups and…

cs.FL2015★ 3 cited

The Word Problem for Omega-Terms over the Trotter-Weil Hierarchy

Manfred Kufleitner, Jan Philipp Wächter

For two given -terms and , the word problem for -terms over a variety asks whether in all monoids in . We show…

cs.LO2014

Two-Variable Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games over Omega-Terms

Manfred Kufleitner, Jan Philipp Wächter

Fragments of first-order logic over words can often be characterized in terms of finite monoids, and identities of omega-terms are an effective mechanism for specifying classes of…