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The Emptiness Problem for Tree Automata with at Least One Disequality Constraint is NP-hard

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2014-12-03 v1

Abstract

The model of tree automata with equality and disequality constraints was introduced in 2007 by Filiot, Talbot and Tison. In this paper we show that if there is at least one disequality constraint, the emptiness problem is NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0839,
  title  = {The Emptiness Problem for Tree Automata with at Least One Disequality Constraint is NP-hard},
  author = {P. -C Héam and V. Hugot and O. Kouchnarenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0839},
  year   = {2014}
}