{"title":"Formal languages and infinite groups","authors":"R. Gilman","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/03","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an introduction to formal languages from the point of view of combinatorial group theory. Group theoretic applications are included and language classes are defined algebraically.","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"251 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122704261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Warwick automatic groups software","authors":"D. Holt","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a description of the algorithms employed by the Warwick AUTOMATA package for calculating the finite state automata associated with a short-lex automatic group. The aim is to provide an overview of the whole process, rather than concentrating on technical details, which have been already been published elsewhere. A number of related programs are also described.","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131827450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detecting quasiconvexity: Algorithmic aspects","authors":"Ilya Kapovich","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/07","url":null,"abstract":"The main result of this paper states that for any group $G$ with an automatic structure $L$ with unique representatives one can construct a uniform partial algorithm which detects $L$-rational subgroups and gives their preimages in $L$. This provides a practical, not just theoretical, procedure for solving the occurrence problem for such subgroups.","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"18 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114103066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A user's guide to the mapping class group: Once punctured surfaces","authors":"L. Mosher","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/08","url":null,"abstract":"This document is a practical guide to computations using an automatic structure for the mapping class group of a once-punctured, oriented surface $S$. We describe a quadratic time algorithm for the word problem in this group, which can be implemented efficiently with pencil and paper. The input of the algorithm is a word, consisting of ``chord diagrams'' of ideal triangulations and elementary moves, which represents an element of the mapping class group. The output is a word called a ``normal form'' that uniquely represents the same group element.","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134529994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Groups of deficiency zero","authors":"G. Havas, M. Newman, E. O'Brien","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/04","url":null,"abstract":"We make a systematic study of groups of deficiency zero, concentrating on groups of prime-power order. We prove that a number of p-groups have deficiency zero and give explicit balanced presentations for them. This significantly increases the number of such groups known. We describe a reasonably general computational approach which leads to these results. We also list some other finite groups of deficiency zero.","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115860002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some remarks on one-relator free products with amalgamation","authors":"A. Juhász","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114633713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the finite subgroups of a context-free group","authors":"Géraud Sénizergues","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"31 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132724969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A filtration of the chain complex of a rewriting system","authors":"Lisa Carbone","doi":"10.1090/dimacs/025/02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025/02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":301293,"journal":{"name":"Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122103183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}