## The (generalized) Post correspondence problem with lists consisting of two words is decidable.(English)Zbl 0493.68076

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 68Q45 Formal languages and automata 20F10 Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) 20M05 Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems 03D40 Word problems, etc. in computability and recursion theory 20M35 Semigroups in automata theory, linguistics, etc.

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