Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B19f (1988).
[Formerly: Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1988, 361/S-19, p. 113-115.]

Aldo de Luca

On the Existence of a Finite Base for Systems of Equations of Infinite Words

Abstract. We prove that any set of equations on infinite words in a finite number of indeterminates has, over a countably generated free monoid, a finite equivalent subsystem. From this it follows that any language L of finite and infinite words on a finite alphabet A has a test set for morphisms from A\infty to B\infty. In the case of finite words, the result was proved by M. H. Albert and J. Lawrence.

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The paper has been finally published under the title "Test sets for languages of infinite words" in Inform. Process. Lett. 29 (1988), 91-95.