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| | Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | A rewrite monoid M is a finitely presented monoid in which equality between elements of M, called words or strings, is decidable via a sequence of rewriting equations, called reduction relations, rules, or equations. |
 | | If a rewrite monoid M is confluent its reduction relations, or more specifically its reduction machine, can be used to reduce words in M to their irreducible normal forms under the given ordering, and so the word problem for M can be efficiently solved. |
 | | The objects are the rewrite monoids and the morphisms are monoid homomorphisms. |
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