{ "id": "1806.03540", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-06-09T20:56:56.000Z", "updated": "2018-06-09T20:56:56.000Z", "title": "Rational series in the free group and the Connes operator", "authors": [ "Aaron Lauve", "Christophe Reutenauer" ], "comment": "22 pages, 2 figures", "journal": "Noncommutative birational geometry, representations and combinatorics, pp. 177-197, Contemp. Math., v. 592, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We characterize rational series over the free group by using an operator introduced by A. Connes. We prove that rational Malcev--Neumann series posses rational expressions without simplifications. Finally, we develop an effective algorithm for solving the word problem in the free skew field.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-06-09T20:56:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E05", "03D05", "13F25", "16S10" ], "keywords": [ "free group", "connes operator", "rational malcev-neumann series posses rational", "malcev-neumann series posses rational expressions", "free skew field" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }