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Knuth-Bendix algorithm and the conjugacy problems in monoids
We present an algorithmic approach to the conjugacy problems in monoids,
using rewriting systems. We extend the classical theory of rewriting developed
by Knuth and Bendix to a rewriting that takes into account the cyclic
conjugates.Comment: This is a new version of the paper 'The conjugacy problems in monoids
and semigroups'. This version will appear in the journal 'Semigroup forum
On braid monodromy factorizations
We introduce and develop a language of semigroups over the braid groups for a
study of braid monodromy factorizations (bmf's) of plane algebraic curves and
other related objects. As an application we give a new proof of Orevkov's
theorem on realization of a bmf over a disc by algebraic curves and show that
the complexity of such a realization can not be bounded in terms of the types
of the factors of the bmf. Besides, we prove that the type of a bmf is
distinguishing Hurwitz curves with singularities of inseparable types up to
-isotopy and -holomorphic cuspidal curves in \C P^2 up to symplectic
isotopy.Comment: 52 pages, AMS-Te
Entropy in Dimension One
This paper completely classifies which numbers arise as the topological
entropy associated to postcritically finite self-maps of the unit interval.
Specifically, a positive real number h is the topological entropy of a
postcritically finite self-map of the unit interval if and only if exp(h) is an
algebraic integer that is at least as large as the absolute value of any of the
conjugates of exp(h); that is, if exp(h) is a weak Perron number. The
postcritically finite map may be chosen to be a polynomial all of whose
critical points are in the interval (0,1). This paper also proves that the weak
Perron numbers are precisely the numbers that arise as exp(h), where h is the
topological entropy associated to ergodic train track representatives of outer
automorphisms of a free group.Comment: 38 pages, 15 figures. This paper was completed by the author before
his death, and was uploaded by Dylan Thurston. A version including endnotes
by John Milnor will appear in the proceedings of the Banff conference on
Frontiers in Complex Dynamic
Regular homotopy of Hurwitz curves
We prove that any two irreducible cuspidal Hurwitz curves and (or
more generally, curves with A-type singularities) in the Hirzebruch surface
with coinciding homology classes and sets of singularities are regular
homotopic; and symplectically regular homotopic if and are
symplectic with respect to a compatible symplectic form.Comment: 26 page
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