Determinism after the first hook or cohook letter #
The unsigned trivial word at a branching vertex may admit two extensions, so global endpoint uniqueness is deliberately not asserted. Once a first hook or cohook letter has been chosen, however, reducedness excludes that same displayed arrow from the opposite-sign tail. The special-biserial degree-two bound then makes the first tail arrow unique.
In a finite type of cardinality at most two, two elements different from the same marked element coincide.
Positive displayed arrows which can be appended to a word while retaining the string condition.
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Negative displayed arrows which can be appended to a word while retaining the string condition.
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A positive displayed arrow cannot be followed immediately by its formal inverse in a string.
A negative displayed arrow cannot be followed immediately by its formal inverse in a string.
After a chosen positive boundary arrow, reducedness excludes that arrow from being the first negative-tail arrow.
After a chosen negative boundary arrow, reducedness excludes that arrow from being the first positive-tail arrow.
Two consecutive negative letters in a string give a surviving ordinary two-arrow path in the reversed word.
Two consecutive positive letters in a string give a surviving ordinary two-arrow path in the word itself.
In a special-biserial presentation, the first negative-tail arrow after a fixed positive hook boundary is unique.
In a special-biserial presentation, the first positive-tail arrow after a fixed negative cohook boundary is unique.
Once the positive boundary arrow is fixed, a negative tail is uniquely determined by its number of steps. The endpoint word and the arm witness are both retained in the dependent pair.
Once the negative boundary arrow is fixed, a positive tail is uniquely determined by its number of steps.
Two maximal negative tails after the same positive boundary are equal, including their endpoint words and arm witnesses.
Two maximal positive tails after the same negative boundary are equal.
Forget a maximal hook down to its chosen valid positive boundary arrow.
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In a special-biserial presentation, two maximal hooks with the same chosen positive boundary arrow are the same dependent hook extension.
Maximal hooks over a fixed word are in bijection with the valid positive boundary arrows. Multiple boundaries at an unsigned trivial word remain distinct.
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Forget a maximal cohook down to its chosen valid negative boundary arrow.
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In a special-biserial presentation, two maximal cohooks with the same chosen negative boundary arrow are the same dependent cohook extension.
Maximal cohooks over a fixed word are in bijection with the valid negative boundary arrows.