IBP-Litp
1995/45:
Rapport de Recherche Litp /
Litp research reports
43 pages - Octobre/October 1995 -
Document en anglais.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: Infinite string rewrite systems and complexity
Abstract : 	We study the relation between time complexity and derivation work for the word problem of infinitely presented semigroups and groups. We introduce the notion of work of a derivation (defined as the sum of the lengths of the rules used in the derivation, with multiplicity); for infinite presentations, this is a better measure than the number of derivation steps. In the context of deterministic complexity, we replace the word problem by the problem of computing a representative function  (which yields one representative for each congruence class).
	The following results, among others, are proved:
	A finitely generated semigroup S  has a representative function, with linear upper-bound on the length, and computable in deterministic time ¾ TO(1)  if and only if S  is embeddable  in a semigroup with a complete  (i.e., confluent and terminating) presentation  where A  is finite, R  is rational  (i.e., R  is computed by a finite transducer), every derivation has work ¾ TO(1) , and the reduction does not increase lengths more than linearly.
	The word problem of a finitely generated semigroup (or group) S  is decidable in non deterministic time  ¾ TO(1)  if and only if S  has a (group) presentation  where A  is finite, R  is the intersection of two deterministic context-free languages, and the minimum derivation work between equivalent words x, y   is  ¾ T(|x | + |y |)O(1) . (This strengthens a result of Madlener and Otto.)
	A finitely generated semigroup S  has a representative function, defined by minimization over a reduction order, and computable in deterministic time  ¾ TO(1)  if and only if S  has a (group) presentation  where A  is finite, R  is a function computable in linear deterministic time (with the total input-output length as parameter), and the work of every greedy left-most derivation is  ¾ TO(1) 
Publications internes Litp 1995 / Litp research reports 1995