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Complexity of the emptiness problem for graph-walking automata and for tilings with star subgraphs

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2022-12-06 v1

Abstract

This paper proves the decidability of the emptiness problem for two models which recognize graphs: graph-walking automata, and tilings of graphs by star subgraphs (star automata). Furthermore, it is proved that the non-emptiness problem for graph-walking automata (that is, whether a given automaton accepts at least one graph) is NEXP-complete. For star automata, which generalize nondeterministic tree automata to the case of graphs, it is proved that their non-emptiness problem is NP-complete.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02380,
  title  = {Complexity of the emptiness problem for graph-walking automata and for tilings with star subgraphs},
  author = {Olga Martynova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02380},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages, 4 figures