Parallel complexity for nilpotent groups

Alexei Myasnikov, Armin Weiß

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Abstract

Recently, Macdonald et al. showed that many algorithmic problems for finitely generated nilpotent groups including computation of normal forms, the subgroup membership problem, the conjugacy problem, and computation of subgroup presentations can be done in LOGSPACE. Here, we follow their approach and show that all these problems are complete for the uniform circuit class TC0 - even if an r-generated nilpotent group of class at most c is part of the input but r and c are fixed constants. In particular, unary encoded systems of a bounded number of linear equations over the integers can be solved in TC0. In order to solve these problems in TC0, we show that the unary version of the extended gcd problem (compute greatest common divisors and express them as linear combinations) is in TC0. Moreover, if we allow a certain binary representation of the inputs, then the word problem and computation of normal forms is still in uniform TC0, while all the other problems we examine are shown to be TC0-Turing-reducible to the binary extended gcd problem.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)895-928
Number of pages34
JournalInternational Journal of Algebra and Computation
Volume32
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2022

Keywords

  • Nilpotent groups
  • T C 0
  • greatest common divisors
  • subgroup membership

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