The central tree property and algorithmic problems on subgroups of free groups
We study the average case complexity of the Uniform Membership Problem for subgroups of free groups, and we show that it is orders of magnitude smaller than the worst case complexity of the best known algorithms. This applies to subgroups given by a fixed number of generators as well as to subgroups...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/410020 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/410020 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jgth-2023-0050 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Classificació AMS::68 Computer science::68W Algorithms Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística |
| Sumario: | We study the average case complexity of the Uniform Membership Problem for subgroups of free groups, and we show that it is orders of magnitude smaller than the worst case complexity of the best known algorithms. This applies to subgroups given by a fixed number of generators as well as to subgroups given by an exponential number of generators. The main idea behind this result is to exploit a generic property of tuples of words, called the central tree property. An application is given to the average case complexity of the Relative Primitivity Problem, using Shpilrain’s recent algorithm to decide primitivity, whose average case complexity is a constant depending only on the rank of the ambient free group. |
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