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Church-Rooser property and homology of monoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2009

Yves Lafont  and
Alain Prouté
Yves Lafont
Affiliation:
Laboratorie d'Informatique, Ecole Normale Supérieure. (URA 1327 du CNRS)
Alain Prouté
Affiliation:
UFR de Mathématiques, Université de Paris 7. (URA 212 Du CNRS).
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Abstract

We present a result of C.C. Squier relating two topics:

— the canonical rewriting systems, which have been widely studied by computer scientists as a tool for solving word problems,

— the homology of groups (more generally of monoids), which belongs to the core of pure mathematics, on the borders of algebra and topology.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , November 1991 , pp. 297 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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