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Remarks on the complexity of an invariant of context-free grammars

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In this paper the complexity of some decision problems for finitely presented abelian groups defined by context-free grammars is investigated. We shall prove that the membership problem and the isomorphism problem are recognizable in deterministic polynomial-time.

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Huynh, TD. Remarks on the complexity of an invariant of context-free grammars. Acta Informatica 17, 89–99 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262978

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