Is decidability of the Submonoid Membership Problem closed under finite extensions?

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Main Author: Shafrir, Doron
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contents We show that the rational subset membership problem in $G$ can be reduced to the submonoid membership problem in $G{\times}H$ where $H$ is virtually Abelian. We use this to show that there is no algorithm reducing submonoid membership to a finite index subgroup uniformly for all virtually nilpotent groups. We also provide evidence towards the existence of a group $G$ with a subgroup $H<G$ of index 2, such that the submonoid membership problem is decidable in $H$ but not in $G$.
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spellingShingle Is decidability of the Submonoid Membership Problem closed under finite extensions?
Shafrir, Doron
Group Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
We show that the rational subset membership problem in $G$ can be reduced to the submonoid membership problem in $G{\times}H$ where $H$ is virtually Abelian. We use this to show that there is no algorithm reducing submonoid membership to a finite index subgroup uniformly for all virtually nilpotent groups. We also provide evidence towards the existence of a group $G$ with a subgroup $H<G$ of index 2, such that the submonoid membership problem is decidable in $H$ but not in $G$.
title Is decidability of the Submonoid Membership Problem closed under finite extensions?
topic Group Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12921