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Inspired by Quantum Mechanics, we reformulate Hilbert's tenth problem in the domain of integer arithmetics into problems involving either a set of infinitely-coupled non-linear differential equations or a class of linear Schr\"odinger…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tien D. Kieu

The CSP of a first-order theory $T$ is the problem of deciding for a given finite set $S$ of atomic formulas whether $T \cup S$ is satisfiable. Let $T_1$ and $T_2$ be two theories with countably infinite models and disjoint signatures.…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Manuel Bodirsky , Johannes Greiner

Weakly recognizing morphisms from free semigroups onto finite semigroups are a classical way for defining the class of omega-regular languages, i.e., a set of infinite words is weakly recognizable by such a morphism if and only if it is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Lukas Fleischer , Manfred Kufleitner

We present new results on the landscape of problems that can be solved by quantum Turing machines (QTM's) employing severely limited amounts of memory. In this context, we demonstrate two infinite time hierarchies of complexity classes…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-07 A. C. Cem Say

Consider a universal Turing machine that produces a partial or total function (or a binary stream), based on the answers to the binary queries that it makes during the computation. We study the probability that the machine will produce a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-28 George Barmpalias , Douglas Cenzer , Christopher P. Porter

We introduce the zeta number, natural halting probability and natural complexity of a Turing machine and we relate them to Chaitin's Omega number, halting probability, and program-size complexity. A classification of Turing machines…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cristian S. Calude , Michael A. Stay

The main result of this paper is the decidability of the membership problem for $2\times 2$ nonsingular integer matrices. Namely, we will construct the first algorithm that for any nonsingular $2\times 2$ integer matrices $M_1,\dots,M_n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

Chaitin's number Omega is the halting probability of a universal prefix-free machine, and although it depends on the underlying enumeration of prefix-free machines, it is always Turing-complete. It can be observed, in fact, that for every…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-05-04 George Barmpalias , Nan Fang , Andrew Lewis-Pye

We consider the following problem for various infinite time machines. If a real is computable relative to large set of oracles such as a set of full measure or just of positive measure, a comeager set, or a nonmeager Borel set, is it…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht

Omega-powers of finitary languages are languages of infinite words (omega-languages) in the form V^omega, where V is a finitary language over a finite alphabet X. They appear very naturally in the characterizaton of regular or context-free…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-03-12 Dominique Lecomte , Olivier Finkel

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton, are there words accepted with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently; to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi , Youssouf Oualhadj

We consider the computability and complexity of decision questions for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) with sub-exponential ambiguity. We show that the emptiness problem for strict and non-strict cut-points of polynomially ambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Paul C. Bell

The {\em diagonalization technique} was invented by Georg Cantor to show that there are more real numbers than algebraic numbers and is very crucial in {\em theoretical computer science}. In this work, we enumerate all of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianrong Lin

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton A, are there words accepted by A with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

The main aim of the paper is to give a short self-contained proof of the decidability of language equivalence for deterministic pushdown automata, which is the famous problem solved by G. Senizergues, for which C. Stirling has derived a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Petr Jancar

A characteristic sample for a language $L$ and a learning algorithm $\textbf{L}$ is a finite sample of words $T_L$ labeled by their membership in $L$ such that for any sample $T \supseteq T_L$ consistent with $L$, on input $T$ the learning…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Dana Angluin , Dana Fisman

A turn in a computation of a pushdown automaton is a switch from a phase in which the height of the pushdown store increases to a phase in which it decreases. Given a pushdown or one-counter automaton, we consider, for each string in its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Giovanni Pighizzini

The power of real-time Turing machines using sublinear space is investigated. In contrast to a claim appearing in the literature, such machines can accept non-regular languages, even if working in deterministic mode. While maintaining a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Holger Petersen

We show that deterministic finite automata equipped with $k$ two-way heads are equivalent to deterministic machines with a single two-way input head and $k-1$ linearly bounded counters if the accepted language is strictly bounded, i.e., a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Holger Petersen