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The word problem for finite-rank Artin groups

Corollary 1.3 of the parabolic-intersections manuscript: there is an algorithm that, given a finite Coxeter matrix MM, a subset XX and words u,vu,v, decides whether v∈uAXu−1v\in uA_Xu^{-1}; with X=∅X=\varnothing this decides the word problem for every finite-rank Artin group. The algorithm uses the framed zigzag-algebra action, shown faithful in Section 8, computed exactly over a cyclotomic field, and tests one transported projective by Gaussian elimination. No complexity bound is asserted, and the conjugacy problem is not treated.

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The word problem for finite-rank Artin groups

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Corollary 1.3 of the parabolic-intersections manuscript: there is an algorithm that, given a finite Coxeter matrix MM, a subset XX and words u,vu,v, decides whether v∈uAXu−1v\in uA_Xu^{-1}; with X=∅X=\varnothing this decides the word problem for every finite-rank Artin group. The algorithm uses the framed zigzag-algebra action, shown faithful in Section 8, computed exactly over a cyclotomic field, and tests one transporte…

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Corollary 1.3 of the parabolic-intersections manuscript: there is an algorithm that, given a finite Coxeter matrix MM, a subset XX and words u,vu,v, decides whether v∈uAXu−1v\in uA_Xu^{-1}; with X=∅X=\varnothing this decides the word problem for every finite-rank Artin group. The algorithm uses the framed zigzag-algebra action, shown faithful in Section 8, computed exactly over a cyclotomic field, and tests one transported projective by Gaussian elimination. No complexity bound is asserted, and the conjugacy problem is not treated.

Corollary 1.3 of the parabolic-intersections manuscript: there is an algorithm that, given a finite Coxeter matrix MM, a subset XX and words u,vu,v, decides whether v∈uAXu−1v\in uA_Xu^{-1}; with X=∅X=\varnothing this decides the word problem for every finite-rank Artin group. The algorithm uses the framed zigzag-algebra action, shown faithful in Section 8, computed exactly over a cyclotomic field, and tests one transported projective by Gaussian elimination. No complexity bound is asserted, and the conjugacy problem is not treated.

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