English

BPA Bisimilarity is EXPTIME-hard

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2012-12-04 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Given a basic process algebra (BPA) and two stack symbols, the BPA bisimilarity problem asks whether the two stack symbols are bisimilar. We show that this problem is EXPTIME-hard.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.7041,
  title  = {BPA Bisimilarity is EXPTIME-hard},
  author = {Stefan Kiefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.7041},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

technical report for a an article that is to appear in Information Processing Letters. The present version takes into account improvements prompted by the journal's reviewers

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