The word problem for 1LC congruences is NP-hard

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Rosaz

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (L.R.I.), Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, CNRS U.R.A., 410 Bâtiment 490, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, it is proved that the word problem for congruences generated by subsets of {(abc,acb)|a ∈ A ∪ {ε},b, c ∈ A) is NP-hard. These congruences are a generalization of Mazurkiewicz's traces.