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I survey certain recent results concerning with the decidability and the undecidability of certain natural problems arising in the theory of the classical Birkhoff operators (ℍ, \(\mathbb{S}\), ℙ, and their combinations) on classes of finite semigroups and groups.
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Kublanovskii, S.I. (2000). Algorithmic Problems for Finite Groups and Finite Semigroups. In: Birget, JC., Margolis, S., Meakin, J., Sapir, M. (eds) Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1388-8_9
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