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One-unknown word equations and three-unknown constant-free word equations




TekijätDirk Nowotka, Aleksi Saarela

ToimittajaSrečko Brlek, Christophe Reutenauer

Konferenssin vakiintunut nimiInternational Conference on Developments in Language Theory

Julkaisuvuosi2016

Kokoomateoksen nimiDevelopments in Language Theory: 20th International Conference, DLT 2016, Montréal, Canada, July 25-28, 2016, Proceedings

Sarjan nimiLecture Notes in Computer Science

Numero sarjassa9840

Vuosikerta9840

Aloitussivu332

Lopetussivu343

Sivujen määrä12

ISBN978-3-662-53131-0

eISBN978-3-662-53132-7

ISSN0302-9743

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53132-7_27


Tiivistelmä

We prove connections between one-unknown word equations and
three-unknown constant-free word equations, and use them to prove that
the number of equations in an independent system of three-unknown
constant-free equations is at most logarithmic with respect to the
length of the shortest equation in the system. We also study two
well-known conjectures. The first conjecture claims that there is a
constant c such that every one-unknown equation has either infinitely many solutions or at most c. The second conjecture claims that there is a constant c such that every independent system of three-unknown constant-free equations with a nonperiodic solution is of size at most c. We prove that the first conjecture implies the second one, possibly for a different constant.


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