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Testing membership in commutative transformation semigroups

Complexity

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Given a finite set X of points, a finite set of commuting transformations over X (generators), and another transformation f over X, we analyze the complexity of the problem of deciding whether f can be obtained by composition of the generators. We show that the complexity varies with the threshold of the semigroup: polynomial-time (NC 3 in parallel) with threshold zero or one, and NP-complete otherwise.

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  • Permutation Group
  • Commutative Semigroup
  • Parallel Complexity
  • Membership Problem
  • Transformation Semigroup

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  1. School of Computer Science, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, H3A 2K6, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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    Beaudry, M. (1987). Testing membership in commutative transformation semigroups. In: Ottmann, T. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18088-5_47

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