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Thue congruences and the Church-Rosser property

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Finite Thue systems that are Church-Rosser and properties of the semigroups such systems present are studied.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 93106, California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

    Ronald V. Book & Celm P. O'Dunlaing

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Book, R.V., O'Dunlaing, C.P. Thue congruences and the Church-Rosser property. Semigroup Forum 22, 367–379 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02572815

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