Knapsack in Graph Groups, HNN-Extensions and Amalgamated Products 论文

2012arXiv (Cornell University)引用 370
Geometric and Algebraic TopologyComputational Geometry and Mesh GenerationTopological and Geometric Data Analysis

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发表期刊/会议
arXiv (Cornell University)
发表日期
2012-04-12
发表年份
2012

关键词

Geometric and Algebraic TopologyComputational Geometry and Mesh GenerationTopological and Geometric Data Analysis

摘要

It is shown that the knapsack problem, which was introduced by Myasnikov et al. for arbitrary finitely generated groups, can be solved in NP for graph groups. This result even holds if the group elements are represented in a compressed form by SLPs, which generalizes the classical NP-completeness result of the integer knapsack problem. We also prove general transfer results: NP-membership of the knapsack problem is passed on to finite extensions, HNN-extensions over finite associated subgroups, and amalgamated products with finite identified subgroups.