Modelling the dynamical behaviour of computer systems
We show that the class of groups which have monoid presentations by means of finite special -confluent string-rewriting systems strictly contains the class of plain groups (the groups which are free products of a finitely generated free group and finitely many finite groups), and that any group which has an infinite cyclic central subgroup can be presented by such a string-rewriting system if and only if it is the direct product of an infinite cyclic group and a finite cyclic group.
We show that the class of groups which have monoid presentations by means of finite special [λ]-confluent string-rewriting systems strictly contains the class of plain groups (the groups which are free products of a finitely generated free group and finitely many finite groups), and that any group which has an infinite cyclic central subgroup can be presented by such a string-rewriting system if and only if it is the direct product of an infinite cyclic group and a finite cyclic group.
We study five extensions of the polymorphically typed lambda-calculus (system F) by type constructs intended to model fixed-points of monotone operators. Building on work by Geuvers concerning the relation between term rewrite systems for least pre-fixed-points and greatest post-fixed-points of positive type schemes (i.e., non-nested positive inductive and coinductive types) and so-called retract types, we show that there are reduction-preserving embeddings even between systems of monotone (co)inductive...
In response to [3] and [4] we prove that the recognition of cover graphs of finite posets is an NP-hard problem.
Nous donnons une caractérisation complète de tous les morphismes binaires qui préservent les mots sturmiens et montrons que les mots infinis engendrés par ces morphismes sont rigides.