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The decision time of an infinite time algorithm is the supremum of its halting times over all real inputs. The decision time of a set of reals is the least decision time of an algorithm that decides the set; semidecision times of…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht , Philip Welch

We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined by parity conditions. We consider three qualitative decision problems: (i) the positive decision problem asks whether there is a word that is accepted with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mathieu Tracol

Can a computer which runs for time $\omega^2$ compute more than one which runs for time $\omega$? No. Not, at least, for the infinite computer we describe. Our computer gets more powerful when the set of its steps gets larger. We prove that…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ryan Bissell-Siders

Given two weighted automata, we consider the problem of whether one is big-O of the other, i.e., if the weight of every finite word in the first is not greater than some constant multiple of the weight in the second. We show that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dmitry Chistikov , Stefan Kiefer , Andrzej S. Murawski , David Purser

We survey recent results on the topological complexity of context-free omega-languages which form the second level of the Chomsky hierarchy of languages of infinite words. In particular, we consider the Borel hierarchy and the Wadge…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-14 Olivier Finkel

Parametric timed automata extend the standard timed automata with the possibility to use parameters in the clock guards. In general, if the parameters are real-valued, the problem of language emptiness of such automata is undecidable even…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Nikola Beneš , Peter Bezděk , Kim G. Larsen , Jiří Srba

For every Turing machine, we construct an automaton group that simulates it. Precisely, starting from an initial configuration of the Turing machine, we explicitly construct an element of the group such that the Turing machine stops if, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Pierre Gillibert

To explore the limitation of a class of quantum algorithms originally proposed for the Hilbert's tenth problem, we consider two further classes of mathematically non-decidable problems, those of a modified version of the Hilbert's tenth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D Kieu

A regular language $L$ is said to be prime, if it is not the product of two non-trivial languages. Martens et al. settled the exact complexity of deciding primality for deterministic finite automata in 2010. For finite languages, Mateescu…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Philip Sieder

Deterministic one-way time-bounded multi-counter automata are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are also backward deterministic and, thus, are able to uniquely step the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

We prove the undecidability of determining whether a Turing machine yields an eventually periodic trajectory. From this, we deduce the undecidability of orbit finiteness in the polynomial dynamical system on infinite tuples of integers.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Gwangyong Gwon

This paper is the extended version of On the Complexity of Infinite Advice Strings (ICALP 2018). We investigate a notion of comparison between infinite strings. In a general way, if M is a computation model (e.g. Turing machines) and C a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

Let $L_{>\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ and $L_{\geq\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ be the languages recognized by {\em measure many 1-way quantum finite automata (MM-QFA)} (or,{\em enhanced 1-way quantum finite automata(EQFA)}) $\mathcal{A}$ with strict…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tianrong Lin

The present paper presents and proves a proposition concerning the time complexity of finite languages. It is shown herein, that for any finite language (a language for which the set of words composing it is finite) there is a Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu

Infinite time Turing machine models with tape length $\alpha$, denoted $T_\alpha$, strengthen the machines of Hamkins and Kidder [HL00] with tape length $\omega$. A new phenomenon is that for some countable ordinals $\alpha$, some cells…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Merlin Carl , Benjamin Rin , Philipp Schlicht

For two given $\omega$-terms $\alpha$ and $\beta$, the word problem for $\omega$-terms over a variety $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$ asks whether $\alpha=\beta$ in all monoids in $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$. We show that the word problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Manfred Kufleitner , Jan Philipp Wächter

It is well known that for a regular tree language it is decidable whether or not it can be recognized by a deterministic top-down tree automaton (DTA). However, the computational complexity of this problem has not been studied. We show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Peter Leupold , Sebastian Maneth

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

There are many different semantics for general logic programs (i.e. programs that use negation in the bodies of clauses). Most of these semantics are Turing complete (in a sense that can be made precise), implying that they are undecidable.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Levon Haykazyan

An automaton is unambiguous if for every input it has at most one accepting computation. An automaton is k-ambiguous (for k > 0) if for every input it has at most k accepting computations. An automaton is boundedly ambiguous if it is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alexander Rabinovich , Doron Tiferet