On an algorithm to decide whether a free group is a free factor of another

نویسندگان

  • Pedro V. Silva
  • Pascal Weil
چکیده

We revisit the problem of deciding whether a finitely generated subgroup H is a free factor of a given free group F . Known algorithms solve this problem in time polynomial in the sum of the lengths of the generators of H and exponential in the rank of F . We show that the latter dependency can be made exponential in the rank difference rank(F )− rank(H), which often makes a significant change. Résumé. Nous revenons sur la question de décider si un sous-groupe finiment engendré H est facteur libre d’un groupe libre donné F . On trouve dans la littérature des algorithmes qui résolvent ce problème en temps polynomial en la somme des longueurs des générateurs de H , et exponentiel en le rang de F . Nous montrons que l’on peut remplacer la dépendance exponentielle en rank(F ) par une dépendance exponentielle en la différence rank(F )− rank(H), ce qui change souvent les choses de façon considérable. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 20E05,05C25. The combinatorial aspects of group theory have attracted the attention of theoretical computer scientists for a long time, and for a variety of reasons. There is no need to recall the importance of the concept of monoid (e.g. free, finite) in the theory of automata since the foundational results of Schützenberger and Eilenberg (see the books [1, 18]), and groups form a special case of monoids that

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • ITA

دوره 42  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008