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Identifying a group without 2-torsion

Suppose we have a finitely presented group $G$ with solvable word problem. (For instance, the command RWSGroup in Magma terminates giving us a finite [but possibly gigantic] rewrite system.) Is there ...
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Wants: Polynomial Time Algorithm for Decomposing a Multiset of Rationals into Two Additive Subsets.

First, allow me to say that this problem was posed to me by a professor in the department. It is related to his research in a way that I do not know. However, since I couldn't come up with anything ...
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What's the current state of one-rule semi-Thue system termination problem?

What's the current state of one-rule semi-Thue system termination problem? Search produces a lot of references, but it's hard to find out if decidability of this problem has been proven or not.
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Heuristics for the word problem for monoids

The question is about a purely practical problem: Given is a list of identities, as in http://www.findstat.org/MapsDatabase/Mp00069: ...
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Computationally intractable orbit of a monoid action on a finite set

Suppose for each integer $n\geq 1$ we have a submonoid $M_n\subset \mathrm{Self}(\{1, \dots, n\})$ of self-maps of $\{1, \dots, n\}$. A characterization of $M_n$ is an algorithm that takes an integer $...
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