Cross-confluence of reduction for Artin-Tits monoids
Let be an Artin–Tits monoid and let be its reduction system on multifractions. Two multifractions are right reducts of the same multifraction if they are obtained from it by sequences of right reductions; the system is cross-confluent when any two such reducts admit a common left reduct. Cross-confluence conjecture. For every Artin–Tits monoid , the system is cross-confluent.
Cross-confluence would imply semi-convergence and thus provide a route to the word problem without requiring ordinary convergence. The paper presents it as its main conjecture, supported by examples and computations, but no general proof is given.
References
Primary source
Patrick Dehornoy, “Multifraction reduction II: Conjectures for Artin-Tits groups”, arXiv:1606.08995 (2017).
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