The Height of Factorization Forests

  • Authors:
  • Manfred Kufleitner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Formale Methoden der Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '08 Proceedings of the 33rd international symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that for every homomorphism from A+to a finite semigroup Sthere exists a factorization forest of height at most 3 茂戮驴 S茂戮驴 茂戮驴 1. Furthermore, we show that for every non-trivial group, this bound is tight. For aperiodic semigroups, we give an improved upper bound of 2 茂戮驴 S茂戮驴 and we show that for every n茂戮驴 2 there exists an aperiodic semigroup Swith nelements which reaches this bound.