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We consider decision problems for relations over finite and infinite words defined by finite automata. We prove that the equivalence problem for binary deterministic rational relations over infinite words is undecidable in contrast to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christof Löding , Christopher Spinrath

A non-deterministic recursion scheme recognizes a language of finite trees. This very expressive model can simulate, among others, higher-order pushdown automata with collapse. We show decidability of the diagonal problem for schemes. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Lorenzo Clemente , Paweł Parys , Sylvain Salvati , Igor Walukiewicz

The separability problem for word languages of a class $\mathcal{C}$ by languages of a class $\mathcal{S}$ asks, for two given languages $I$ and $E$ from $\mathcal{C}$, whether there exists a language $S$ from $\mathcal{S}$ that includes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wojciech Czerwiński , Wim Martens , Lorijn van Rooijen , Marc Zeitoun , Georg Zetzsche

In this thesis we will present and discuss various results pertaining to tiling problems and mathematical logic, specifically computability theory. We focus on Wang prototiles, as defined in [32]. We begin by studying Domino Problems, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Mark Carney

This paper focuses on the undecidability of translational tiling of $n$-dimensional space $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a set of $k$ tiles. It is known that tiling $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with translated copies with a set of $8$ tiles is undecidable.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

Undecidability of various properties of first order term rewriting systems is well-known. An undecidable property can be classified by the complexity of the formula defining it. This gives rise to a hierarchy of distinct levels of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-03-02 Joerg Endrullis , Herman Geuvers , Hans Zantema

Transductions are binary relations of finite words. For rational transductions, i.e., transductions defined by finite transducers, the inclusion, equivalence and sequential uniformisation problems are known to be undecidable. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

The emptiness and containment problems for probabilistic automata are natural quantitative generalisations of the classical language emptiness and inclusion problems for Boolean automata. It is well known that both problems are undecidable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Laure Daviaud , Marcin Jurdziński , Ranko Lazić , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez , James Worrell

In the paper we define three new complexity classes for Turing Machine undecidable problems inspired by the famous Cook/Levin's NP-complete complexity class for intractable problems. These are U-complete (Universal complete), D-complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eugene Eberbach

The first undecidability result on the tiling is the undecidability of translational tiling of the plane with Wang tiles, where there is an additional color matching requirement. Later, researchers obtained several undecidability results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

Does a given a set of polyominoes tile some rectangle? We show that this problem is undecidable. In a different direction, we also consider tiling a cofinite subset of the plane. The tileability is undecidable for many variants of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Jed Yang

A vector addition system (VAS) with an initial and a final marking and transition labels induces a language. In part because the reachability problem in VAS remains far from being well-understood, it is difficult to devise decision…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , Georg Zetzsche

For a given regular language of infinite trees, one can ask about the minimal number of priorities needed to recognize this language with a non-deterministic, alternating, or weak alternating parity automaton. These questions are known as,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Alessandro Facchini , Filip Murlak , Michał Skrzypczak

We introduce a first-order theory of finite full binary trees and then identify decidable and undecidable fragments of this theory. We show that the analogue of Hilbert`s 10th Problem is undecidable by constructing a many-to-one reduction…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Juvenal Murwanashyaka

We define a class of languages of infinite words over infinite alphabets, and the corresponding automata. The automata used for recognition are a generalisation of deterministic Muller automata to the setting of nominal sets. Remarkably,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Vincenzo Ciancia , Matteo Sammartino

We study the separability problem for automatic relations (i.e., relations on finite words definable by synchronous automata) in terms of recognizable relations (i.e., finite unions of products of regular languages). This problem takes as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Pablo Barceló , Diego Figueira , Rémi Morvan

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

A new approach to the design of massively parallel and interactive programming languages has been recently proposed using rv-systems (interactive systems with registers and voices) and Agapia programming. In this paper we present a few…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-05 Alexandru Sofronia , Alexandru Popa , Gheorghe Stefanescu

We show that there are $\Sigma_3^0$-complete languages of infinite words accepted by non-deterministic Petri nets with B\"uchi acceptance condition, or equivalently by B\"uchi blind counter automata. This shows that omega-languages accepted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Olivier Finkel , Michał Skrzypczak

A language is dense if the set of all infixes (or subwords) of the language is the set of all words. Here, it is shown that it is decidable whether the language accepted by a nondeterministic Turing machine with a one-way read-only input…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan