IBP-Litp
1994/23:
Rapport de Recherche Litp /
Litp research reports
13 pages - Décembre/December 1994 -
Document en anglais.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: PSPACE-completeness of certain algorithmic problems on the subgroups of free groups
Abstract : We investigate the solution and the complexity of algorithmic problems on finitely generated subgroups of free groups. Margolis and Meakin showed how a finite inverse monoid S(H) can be canonically and effectively associated to such a subgroup H . We show that H is pure (closed under radical) if and only if S(H) is aperiodic. We also show that testing for this property for H is PSPACE-complete. In the process, we show that certain problems about finite automata, which are PSPACE-complete in general, remain PSPACE-complete when restricted to injective and inverse automata whereas they are known to be in NC for permutation automata.
Publications internes Litp 1994 / Litp research reports 1994