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Computing measures of weak-MSO definable sets of trees

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2025-12-22 v2

Abstract

This work addresses the problem of computing measures of recognisable sets of infinite trees. An algorithm is provided to compute the probability measure of a tree language recognisable by a weak alternating automaton, or equivalently definable in weak monadic second-order logic. The measure is the uniform coin-flipping measure or more generally it is generated by a~branching stochastic process. The class of tree languages in consideration, although smaller than all regular tree languages, comprises in particular the languages definable in the alternation-free mu-calculus or in temporal logic CTL. Thus, the new algorithm may enhance the toolbox of probabilistic model checking.

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@article{arxiv.2410.13479,
  title  = {Computing measures of weak-MSO definable sets of trees},
  author = {Damian Niwiński and Marcin Przybyłko and Michał Skrzypczak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13479},
  year   = {2025}
}

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An ArXiv version of a paper from ICALP 2020