Some aspects of the SD-world

TL;DR

This paper surveys various results related to the self-distributivity law and structures, focusing on word problems and algorithms that solve them efficiently in certain cases.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of known results and algorithms concerning self-distributive structures and their associated word problems.

Findings

Summary of key results on self-distributivity law

Discussion of algorithms solving word problems

Emphasis on cases with efficient solutions

Abstract

We survey a few of the many results now known about the self-distributivity law and selfdistributive structures, with a special emphasis on the associated word problems and the algorithms solving them in good cases.