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24: 224:. This approach results in a graph of substitutions generated by repeatedly applying Levi's lemma. If each unknown appears at most twice, then a word equation is called quadratic; in a quadratic word equation the graph obtained by repeatedly applying Levi's lemma is finite, so it is 275:
of strings and string concatenation has this property (by Levi's lemma for strings), but by itself equidivisibility is not enough to guarantee that a monoid is free. However an equidivisible monoid
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simply being a homomorphism does not guarantee this latter property, as there could be multiple elements of
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that is "in the middle", and can be grouped to one side or the other. Levi's lemma is named after
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originally due to Christine Duboc. Several proofs of Levi's Lemma for traces can be found in
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Duboc, Chr. (1986), "On some equations in free partially commutative monoids",
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mapped to 0.) A monoid for which such a homomorphism exists is also called
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Zap. Naučn. Sem. Leningrad. Otdel. Mat. Inst. Steklov. (LOMI)
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Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages
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A monoid in which Levi's lemma holds is said to have the
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Levi's lemma can be applied repeatedly in order to solve
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Index

Beppo Levi's lemma

theoretical computer science
mathematics
combinatorics on words
strings
Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
word equations
Nielsen transformation for groups
decidable
has a solution
Makanin's algorithm
graph theory
monoid theory
traces
free monoid
homomorphism
monoid of natural numbers
preimage
String operations
String functions (programming)
Levi, F. W.
MR
0011694
Zbl
0061.02405
Matiyasevich, Yu. V.
Makanin, G. S.
Bibcode
1977SbMat..32..129M

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