IBP-Litp
1996/Th/01:
THÈSE de DOCTORAT de l'UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 6 Litp /
Litp research reports
99 pages - Février/February 1996 -
French document.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: PROBLEME DU MOT DES MONOIDES PRÉSENTÉS PAR UN SEUL RELATEU
Abstract : Let M be a monoid having a single relator presentation
€ < A; u=v >
€ where u and v are words on the alphabet A. Generally speaking, the word problem for M has not yet been proved decidable, though there is a conjecture in this direction.
€ We introduce the problem, the way it has formerly been handled and how it ccould now be treated. Then, we show general properties about some factorisatons of words, properties that have their own interest in combinatorics of words. We apply them to our problem in the case when the word u is not self-overlapping. In this case - which, as we shall show, concerns a large class of presentations - the best contribution up to now states that the word problem is decidable if the word u is a factor of v. We extend this result by suppressing the condition "u is a factor of v" provided that the length of v is at least the square of the length of u.
Publications internes Litp 1996 / Litp research reports 1996