Efficient computation in groups via compression

  • Authors:
  • Markus Lohrey;Saul Schleimer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Stuttgart, FMI, Germany;School of Mathematics and Statistics, Rutgers University, Mathematics Department, New Brunswick, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • CSR'07 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computer Science: theory and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study the compressed word problem: a variant of the word problem for finitely generated groups where the input word is given by a context-free grammar that generates exactly one string. We show that finite extensions and free products preserve the complexity of the compressed word problem. Also, the compressed word problem for a graph group can be solved in polynomial time. These results allow us to obtain new upper complexity bounds for the word problem for certain automorphism groups and group extensions.