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Les tuiles sont des structures finies, linéaires ou arborescentes, possédantune notion de chevauchement. Elles sont utiles en informatique pourreprésenter des objets musicaux, comme étudié par Janin [2016]. Nous étudieronsles ensembles de tuiles, en particulier comme représentations d’objetsalgébriques, en se basant sur la théorie des semigroupes inversifs.Nos principaux objets d’étude seront les langages de tuiles, et les reconnaisseursappropriés, que l’on peut définir en adaptant aux tuiles des notionsbien connues sur les langages de mots. Nous nous intéresserons à la reconnaissancepar automate, en présentant des automates sur les tuiles linéaires etarborescentes. Nous remarquerons les limites de la puissance de tels automates.Tandis que la notion de reconnaissance par morphisme de monoïdes estinadaptée aux langages de tuiles, nous définirons celle de reconnaissabilité parprémorphisme, ou quasi-reconnaissabilité. Nous étudierons les liens entre quasireconnaissabilitéet reconnaissabilité par automate de tuile.Nous explorerons enfin les propriétés de clôtures de l’ensemble de langagesde tuiles reconnus par automate, et de ceux reconnus par prémorphisme. Ladernière partie sera essentiellement consacrée aux tuiles linéaires, et présenterale monoïde des décompositions restreintes, un outil pour le produit de langagesde tuiles linéaires. / Tiles are finite, linear or tree-like structures, with a notion of overlapping.In computer science, they offer a useful way to represent musical objects,as studied by Janin [2016]. We will study the sets of tiles, especially asrepresentations of algebraic objects, based on the theory of inverse semigroups.Our main focus will be languages of tiles, and the appropriate recognizers,than can be defined by the adaptation to tiles of well-known notions over languagesof words. We will look into the recognition by automata, by presentingautomata over linear and tree-like tiles. We will remark the limits of the powerof such automata.While the notion of recognizability by morphisms is unsuitable to languagesof tiles, we will define recognizability by premorphisms, or quasi-recognizability.We will study the links between quasi-recognizability and recognizability bytile automata.We will finally look into the closure properties of the set of tile languages recognizedby automata, and of the set of quasi-recognizable languages. The lastpart will be dedicated to linear tiles, and will present the monoid of restricteddecompositions, a tool for the product of linear tile languages.

This paper deals with decision problems related to the star problem in trace monoids, which means to determine whether the iteration of a recognizable trace language is recognizable. Due to a theorem by Richomme from 1994[30,31], we know that the Star Problem is decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a C4-submonoid. The C4 is (isomorphic to) the Caresian Product of two free monoids over doubleton alphabets. It is not known, whether the Star Problem is decidable in C4 or in trace monoids containing a C4. In this paper, we show undecidability of some related problems: Assume a trace monoid which contains a C4. Then, it is undecidable whether for two given recognizable languages K and L, we have K ⊆ L*, although we can decide K* ⊆ L. Further, we can not decide recognizability of K ∩ L* as well as universality and recognizability of K U L*.

This paper deals with a connection between two decision problems for recognizable trace languages: the star problem and the finite power property problem. Due to a theorem by Richomme from 1994 [26, 28], we know that both problems are decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a C4 submonoid. It is not known, whether the star problem or the finite power property are decidable in the C4 or in trace monoids containing a C4. In this paper, we show a new connection between these problems. Assume a trace monoid IM (Σ, I) which is isomorphic to the Cartesian Product of two disjoint trace monoids IM (Σ1, I1) and IM (Σ2, I2). Assume further a recognizable language L in IM (Σ, I) such that every trace in L contains at least one letter in Σ1 and at least in one letter in Σ2. Then, the main theorem of this paper asserts that L* is recognizable iff L has the finite power property.

Thesis by publication. / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University (Division of Information & Communication Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics), 2007. / Bibliography: p. 119-123. / Introduction -- Mackey functors on compact closed categories -- Lax braidings and the lax centre -- On centres and lax centres for promonoidal catagories -- Pullback and finite coproduct preserving functors between categories of permutation representations -- Conclusion. / This thesis studies the theory of Mackey functors as an application of enriched category theory and highlights the notions of lax braiding and lax centre for monoidal categories and more generally promonoidal categories ... The third contribution of this thesis is the study of functors between categories of permutation representations. / x,123 p. ill

De Morgan monoids are algebraic structures that model certain non-classical logics. The variety DMM of all De Morgan monoids models the relevance logic Rt (so-named because it blocks the derivation of true conclusions from irrelevant premises). The so-called subvarieties and subquasivarieties of DMM model the strengthenings of Rt by new logical axioms, or new inference rules, respectively. Meta-logical problems concerning these stronger systems amount to structural problems about (classes of) De Morgan monoids, and the methods of universal algebra can be exploited to solve them. Until now, this strategy was under-developed in the case of Rt and DMM. The thesis contributes in several ways to the filling of this gap. First, a new structure theorem for irreducible De Morgan monoids is proved; it leads to representation theorems for the algebras in several interesting subvarieties of DMM. These in turn help us to analyse the lower part of the lattice of all subvarieties of DMM. This lattice has four atoms, i.e., DMM has just four minimal subvarieties. We describe in detail the second layer of this lattice, i.e., the covers of the four atoms. Within certain subvarieties of DMM, our description amounts to an explicit list of all the covers. We also prove that there are just 68 minimal quasivarieties of De Morgan monoids. Thereafter, we use these insights to identify strengthenings of Rt with certain desirable meta-logical features. In each case, we work with the algebraic counterpart of a meta-logical property. For example, we identify precisely the varieties of De Morgan monoids having the joint embedding property (any two nontrivial members both embed into some third member), and we establish convenient sufficient conditions for epimorphisms to be surjective in a subvariety of DMM. The joint embedding property means that the corresponding logic is determined by a single set of truth tables. Epimorphisms are related to 'implicit definitions'. (For instance, in a ring, the multiplicative inverse of an element is implicitly defined, because it is either uniquely determined or non-existent.) The logical meaning of epimorphism-surjectivity is, roughly speaking, that suitable implicit definitions can be made explicit in the corresponding logical syntax. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS) / Mathematics and Applied Mathematics / PhD / Unrestricted

This paper deals with decision problems related to the star problem in trace monoids, which means to determine whether the iteration of a recognizable trace language is recognizable. Due to a theorem by Richomme from 1994[30,31], we know that the Star Problem is decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a C4-submonoid. The C4 is (isomorphic to) the Caresian Product of two free monoids over doubleton alphabets. It is not known, whether the Star Problem is decidable in C4 or in trace monoids containing a C4. In this paper, we show undecidability of some related problems: Assume a trace monoid which contains a C4. Then, it is undecidable whether for two given recognizable languages K and L, we have K ⊆ L*, although we can decide K* ⊆ L. Further, we can not decide recognizability of K ∩ L* as well as universality and recognizability of K U L*.

This paper deals with decision problems related to the star problem in trace monoids, which means to determine whether the iteration of a recognizable trace language is recognizable. Due to a theorem by G. Richomme from 1994 [32, 33], we know that the star problem is decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a submonoid of the form {a,c}* x {b,d}*. Here, we consider a more general problem: Is it decidable whether for some recognizable trace language and some recognizable or finite trace language P the intersection R ∩ P* is recognizable? If P is recognizable, then we show that this problem is decidale iff the underlying trace monoid does not contain a submonoid of the form {a,c}* x b*. In the case of finite languages P, we show several decidability and undecidability results.

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This paper deals with a connection between two decision problems for recognizable trace languages: the star problem and the finite power property problem. Due to a theorem by Richomme from 1994 [26, 28], we know that both problems are decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a C4 submonoid. It is not known, whether the star problem or the finite power property are decidable in the C4 or in trace monoids containing a C4. In this paper, we show a new connection between these problems. Assume a trace monoid IM (Σ, I) which is isomorphic to the Cartesian Product of two disjoint trace monoids IM (Σ1, I1) and IM (Σ2, I2). Assume further a recognizable language L in IM (Σ, I) such that every trace in L contains at least one letter in Σ1 and at least in one letter in Σ2. Then, the main theorem of this paper asserts that L* is recognizable iff L has the finite power property.