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Recursive permutations whose cycles are the classes of a decidable equivalence relation are studied; the set of these permutations is called $mathrm{Perm}$, the group of all recursive permutations $mathcal{G}$. Multiple equivalent computable representations of decidable equivalence relations are provided. $mathcal{G}$-conjugacy in $mathrm{Perm}$ is characterised by computable isomorphy of cycle equivalence relations. This result parallels the equivalence of cycle type equality and conjugacy in the full symmetric group of the natural numbers. Conditions are presented for a permutation $f in mathcal{G}$ to be in $mathrm{Perm}$ and for a decidable equivalence relation to appear as the cycle relation of a member of $mathcal{G}$. In particular, two normal forms for the cycle structure of permutations are defined and it is shown that conjugacy to a permutation in the first normal form is equivalent to membership in $mathrm{Perm}$. $mathrm{Perm}$ is further characterised as the set of maximal permutations in a family of preordered subsets of automorphism groups of decidable equivalences. Conjugacy to a permutation in the second normal form corresponds to decidable cycles plus decidable cycle finiteness problem. Cycle decidability and cycle finiteness are both shown to have the maximal one-one degree of the Halting Problem. Cycle finiteness is used to prove that conjugacy in $mathrm{Perm}$ cannot be decided and that it is impossible to compute cycle deciders for products of members of $mathrm{Perm}$ and finitary permutations. It is also shown that $mathrm{Perm}$ is not recursively enumerable and that it is not a group.
Let $mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field of odd characteristic. We study Redei functions that induce permutations over $mathbb{P}^1(mathbb{F}_q)$ whose cycle decomposition contains only cycles of length $1$ and $j$, for an integer $jgeq 2$. When $j$ is $4$ or a prime number, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Redei permutation of this type to exist over $mathbb{P}^1(mathbb{F}_q)$, characterize Redei permutations consisting of $1$- and $j$-cycles, and determine their total number. We also present explicit formulas for Redei involutions based on the number of fixed points, and procedures to construct Redei permutations with a prescribed number of fixed points and $j$-cycles for $j in {3,4,5}$.
A universal cycle for permutations of length $n$ is a cyclic word or permutation, any factor of which is order-isomorphic to exactly one permutation of length $n$, and containing all permutations of length $n$ as factors. It is well known that universal cycles for permutations of length $n$ exist. However, all known ways to construct such cycles are rather complicated. For example, in the original paper establishing the existence of the universal cycles, constructing such a cycle involves finding an Eulerian cycle in a certain graph and then dealing with partially ordered sets. In this paper, we offer a simple way to generate a universal cycle for permutations of length $n$, which is based on applying a greedy algorithm to a permutation of length $n-1$. We prove that this approach gives a unique universal cycle $Pi_n$ for permutations, and we study properties of $Pi_n$.
The present survey aims at being a list of Conjectures and Problems in an area of model-theoretic algebra wide open for research, not a list of known results. To keep the text compact, it focuses on structures of finite Morley rank, although the same questions can be asked about other classes of objects, for example, groups definable in $omega$-stable and $o$-minimal theories. In many cases, answers are not known even in the classical category of algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields.
In language learning in the limit, the most common type of hypothesis is to give an enumerator for a language. This so-called $W$-index allows for naming arbitrary computably enumerable languages, with the drawback that even the membership problem is undecidable. In this paper we use a different system which allows for naming arbitrary decidable languages, namely programs for characteristic functions (called $C$-indices). These indices have the drawback that it is now not decidable whether a given hypothesis is even a legal $C$-index. In this first analysis of learning with $C$-indices, we give a structured account of the learning power of various restrictions employing $C$-indices, also when compared with $W$-indices. We establish a hierarchy of learning power depending on whether $C$-indices are required (a) on all outputs; (b) only on outputs relevant for the class to be learned and (c) only in the limit as final, correct hypotheses. Furthermore, all these settings are weaker than learning with $W$-indices (even when restricted to classes of computable languages). We analyze all these questions also in relation to the mode of data presentation. Finally, we also ask about the relation of semantic versus syntactic convergence and derive the map of pairwise relations for these two kinds of convergence coupled with various forms of data presentation.