Equations over Finite Monoids with Infinite Promises
Abstract
Larrauri and Zivn\'y [ICALP'25/ACM ToCL'24] recently established a complete complexity classification of the problem of solving a system of equations over a monoid N assuming that a solution exists over a monoid M, where both monoids are finite and M admits a homomorphism to N. Using the algebraic approach to promise constraint satisfaction problems, we extend their complexity classification in two directions: we obtain a complexity dichotomy in the case where arbitrary relations are added to the monoids, and we moreover allow the monoid M to be finitely generated.
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