Abstract
We present efficient computational solutions to the problems of checking equality, performing multiplication, and computing minimal representatives of elements of free bands. A band is any semigroup satisfying the identity x2≈x and the free bandFB(k) is the free object in the variety of k-generated bands. Radoszewski and Rytter developed a linear time algorithm for checking whether two words represent the same element of a free band. In this paper we describe an alternate linear time algorithm for the same problem. The algorithm we present utilises a representation of words as synchronous deterministic transducers that lend themselves to efficient (quadratic in the size of the alphabet) multiplication in the free band. This representation also provides a means of finding the short-lex least word representing a given free band element with quadratic complexity.
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