A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

A characterization of free pairs of upper triangular free monoid morphisms




AuthorsJuha Honkala

PublisherACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Publication year2019

Journal:Information and Computation

Journal acronymINFORM COMPUT

Volume267

First page 110

Last page115

Number of pages6

ISSN0890-5401

eISSN1090-2651

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2019.03.007


Abstract
We study combinatorics on morphisms. More precisely, we study free monoid morphisms and their freeness properties. By definition, a set F of endomorphisms of a free monoid is free, if every product formed of morphims from F can be uniquely factorized. We show that if f and g are endomorphisms of the free monoid A* having upper triangular incidence matrices with diagonal entries at least two, then the pair {f, g} is free if and only if f and g do not commute. This result implies that for such pairs freeness is very easy to decide. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.



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