Double cosets in free groups

In this paper we study double cosets of finite rank free groups. We focus our attention on cancellation types in double cosets and their formal language properties.Comment: Minor change

Knapsack problems in products of groups

The classic knapsack and related problems have natural generalizations to arbitrary (non-commutative) groups, collectively called knapsack-type problems in groups. We study the effect of free and direct products on their time complexity. We show that free products in certain sense preserve time complexity of knapsack-type problems, while direct products may amplify it. Our methods allow to obtain complexity results for rational subset membership problem in amalgamated free products over finite subgroups.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures. Updated to include more general results, mostly in Section

Measuring cones and other thick subsets in free groups

In this paper we investigate the special automata over finite rank free groups and estimate asymptotic characteristics of sets they accept‎. ‎We show how one can decompose an arbitrary regular subset of a finite rank free group into disjoint union of sets accepted by special automata or special monoids‎. ‎These automata allow us to compute explicitly generating functions‎, ‎$lambda-$measures and Cesaro measure of thick monoids‎. ‎Also we improve the asymptotic classification of regular subsets in free groups‎