Vector groups and the equality problem for vector addition systems

Anshel, Michael

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1978-0482272-7

Vector groups and the equality problem for vector addition systems

Author: Michael Anshel
Journal: Math. Comp. 32 (1978), 614-616
MSC: Primary 20F10; Secondary 03D40, 20E06
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1978-0482272-7
MathSciNet review: 482272
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Abstract: Our purpose is to demonstrate that results concerning the equality problem for vector addition systems, may be uséd to establish the decidability and undecidability of decision problems associated with the class of HNN extensions of the infinite cyclic group. We call these groups 'vector groups.'

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