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Almost all one-rule thue systems have decidable word problems

✍ Scribed by Ronald V Book; Craig C Squier


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0012-365X

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✦ Synopsis


The decidability of the word problem for one-rule Thue systems is an open cluestion. In the case of one-rule special Thue systems, i.e., those of the form {(w, 1)} where 1 is the identity, it is known [1] that the word problem is decidable.

Here we show that 'almost all' one-rule Thue systems have decidable word problems, where the notion of 'almost all' expresses a density condition.

If ~ is a finite alphabet, then ~* is the free monoid with identity 1 generated by ~.