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Decomposition of partial commutations

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We define atomic partial commutations that are associated to independence relations of the form A1×A2 ∪ A2×A1 where A1, A2 are two disjoint subsets of the alphabet. Then we prove that each partial commutation can be obtained as the composition of atomic partial commutations.

This work was supported by the P.R.C. Mathématiques et Informatique and by the EBRA project Algebraic and Syntatic Methods in Computer Science.

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Clerbout, M., Latteux, M., Roos, Y. (1990). Decomposition of partial commutations. In: Paterson, M.S. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032054

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