Undecidability of the word problem for one-relator inverse monoids via right-angled Artin subgroups of one-relator groups

Abstract

We prove the following results: (1) There is a one-relator inverse monoid Inv A\:|\:w=1 with undecidable word problem; and (2) There are one-relator groups with undecidable submonoid membership problem. The first of these results answers a problem originally posed by Margolis, Meakin and Stephen in 1987.

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