Potential divisibility in finite semigroups is undecidable

被引:3
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作者
Kublanovsky, S
Sapir, M
机构
[1] TPO Severnyj Ochag, St Petersburg 197342, Russia
[2] Univ Nebraska, Dept Math & Stat, Ctr Commun & Informat Sci, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
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D O I
10.1142/S0218196798000326
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
We prove that there is no algorithm to decide, given a, finite semigroup S and two elements a, b is an element of S, whether there exists a bigger finite semigroup T > S where a divides b and b divides a. This solves a thirty years old problem by John Rhodes.
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页码:671 / 679
页数:9
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