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Freeness Problem for Matrix Semigroups of Parikh Matrices

Teh Wen Chean, Atanasiu Adrian, Wong Denis C. K.

Fundamenta Informaticae

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2021

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Vol. 179, nr 4

385--397

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Since the undecidability of the mortality problem for 3 × 3 matrices over integers was proved using the Post Correspondence Problem, various studies on decision problems of matrix semigroups have emerged. The freeness problem in particular has received much attention but decidability remains open even for 2 × 2 upper triangular matrices over nonnegative integers. Parikh matrices are upper triangular matrices introduced as a generalization of Parikh vectors and have become useful tools in studying of subword occurrences. In this work, we focus on semigroups of Parikh matrices and study the freeness problem in this context.

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A Linear Bound on the k-rendezvous Time for Primitive Sets of NZ Matrices

Catalano Costanza, Azfar Umer, Charlier Ludovic, Jungers Raphaël M.

Fundamenta Informaticae

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2021

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Vol. 180, nr 4

289--314

EN

A set of nonnegative matrices is called primitive if there exists a product of these matrices that is entrywise positive. Motivated by recent results relating synchronizing automata and primitive sets, we study the length of the shortest product of a primitive set having a column or a row with k positive entries, called its k-rendezvous time (k-RT), in the case of sets of matrices having no zero rows and no zero columns. We prove that the k-RT is at most linear w.r.t. the matrix size n for small k, while the problem is still open for synchronizing automata. We provide two upper bounds on the k-RT: the second is an improvement of the first one, although the latter can be written in closed form. We then report numerical results comparing our upper bounds on the k-RT with heuristic approximation methods.

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On the Computational Complexity of Matrix Semigroup Problems

Bell P. C., Potapov I.

Fundamenta Informaticae

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2012

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Vol. 116, nr 1-4

1-13

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Most computational problems for matrix semigroups and groups are inherently difficult to solve and even undecidable starting from dimension three. The questions about the decidability and complexity of problems for two-dimensional matrix semigroups remain open and are directly linked with other challenging problems in the field. In this paper we study the computational complexity of the problem of determining whether the identity matrix belongs to a matrix semigroup (the Identity Problem) generated by a finite set of 2 × 2 integral unimodular matrices. The Identity Problem for matrix semigroups is a well-known challenging problem, which has remained open in any dimension until recently. It is currently known that the problem is decidable in dimension two and undecidable starting from dimension four. In particular, we show that the Identity Problem for 2 × 2 integral unimodular matrices is NP-hard by a reduction of the Subset Sum Problem and several new encoding techniques. An upper bound for the nontrivial decidability result by C. Choffrut and J. Karhum¨aki is unknown. However, we derive a lower bound on the minimum length solution to the Identity Problem for a constructible set of instances, which is exponential in the number of matrices of the generator set and the maximal element of the matrices. This shows that the most obvious candidate for an NP algorithm, which is to guess the shortest sequence of matrices which multiply to give the identity matrix, does not work correctly since the certificate would have a length which is exponential in the size of the instance. Both results lead to a number of corollaries confirming the same bounds for vector reachability, scalar reachability and zero in the right upper corner problems.

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A Note on the Emptiness of Semigroup Intersections

Bell P.

Fundamenta Informaticae

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2007

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Vol. 79, nr 1-2

1-4

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We consider decidability questions for the emptiness problem of intersections of matrix semigroups. This problem was studied by A. Markov [7] and more recently by V. Halava and T. Harju [5]. We give slightly strengthened results of their theorems by using a different matrix encoding. In particular, we show that given two finitely generated semigroups of non-singular upper triangular 3 ×3 matrices over the natural numbers, checking the emptiness of their intersections is undecidable. We also show that the problem is undecidable even for unimodular matrices over 3 ×3 rational matrices.