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This paper shows that the computability of uniform systems of recurrence equations is undecidable even if the number of indices, the number of recurrence equations, the number of variables, and the number of different index domains are bounded by a constant.
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Wanke, E. Undecidability of restricted uniform recurrence equations. Acta Informatica 33, 463–475 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002360050053
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