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Solving Commutative Relaxations of Word Problems

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

We present an algebraic characterization of the standard commutative relaxation of the word problem in terms of a polynomial equality. We then consider a variant of the commutative word problem, referred to as the "Zero-to-All reachability" problem. We show that this problem is equivalent to a finite number of commutative word problems, and we use this insight to derive necessary conditions for Zero-to-All reachability. We conclude with a set of illustrative examples.

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© 2007 IEEE. Issue Date: 12-14 Dec. 2007; Date of Current Version: 21 January 2008. This research was supported by AFOSR MURI grant #102-108-0673.

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20421
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CaltechAUTHORS:20101013-121426898

Funding

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary Research Initiative (AFOSR-MURI)
102-108-0673

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2010-10-14
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2021-11-08
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Proceedings IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
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