The Power of Commuting with Finite Sets of Words

  • Authors:
  • Michal Kunc

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Masaryk University, Janackovo nam. 2a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Theory of Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We construct a finite language L such that the largest language commuting with L is not recursively enumerable. This gives a negative answer to the question raised by Conway in 1971 and also strongly disproves Conway's conjecture on context-freeness of maximal solutions of systems of semi-linear inequalities.