It is well known that automatic groups can be characterized using geometric properties of their Cayley graphs. Along the same line of thought, we provide a geometric characterization of automatic monoids. This involves working with a slightly strengthened definition of an automatic monoid which is still a proper generalization of the concept of an automatic group. The two definitions coincide i...

Recent theoretical research employing a continuum solvent model predicted that radical centers would enhance the acidity (RED-shift) of certain proton-donor molecules. Microhydration studies employing a DFT method are reported here with the aim of establishing the effect of the solvent micro-structure on the acidity of radicals with and without RED-shifts. Microhydration cluster structures were...

This paper investigates the class of finitely presented monoids defined by homogeneous (length-preserving) relations from a computational perspective. The properties of admitting a finite complete rewriting system, having finite derivation type, being automatic, and being biautomatic are investigated for this class of monoids. The first main result shows that for any consistent combination of t...

This paper constructs presentations via finite complete rewriting systems for Plactic monoids of types An, Bn, Cn, Dn, and G2, using a unified proof strategy that depends on Kashiwara’s crystal bases and analogies of Young tableaux, and on Lecouvey’s presentations for these monoids. As corollaries, we deduce that Plactic monoids of these types have finite derivation type and satisfy the homolog...