Title
On The Undecidability Of Freeness Of Matrix Semigroups
Abstract
We slightly improve the result of Klarner, Birget and Satterfield, showing that the freeness of finitely presented multiplicative semigroups of 3 x 3 matrices over N is undecidable even for triangular matrices. This is achieved by proving a new variant of Post correspondence problem. We also consider the freeness problem for 2 x 2 matrices. On the one hand, we show that it cannot le proved undecidable using the above methods which work in higher dimensions, and, on the other hand, we give some evidence that its decidability, if so, is also a challenging problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1142/S0218196799000199
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA AND COMPUTATION
Field
DocType
Volume
Post correspondence problem,Discrete mathematics,Multiplicative function,Algebra,Matrix (mathematics),Decidability,Mathematics,Undecidable problem
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3-4
0218-1967
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Cassaigne128240.80
Tero Harju2714106.10
Juhani Karhumäki31115152.77