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In this work we prove decidability of the model-checking problem for safe recursion schemes against properties defined by alternating B-automata. We then exploit this result to show how to compute downward closures of languages of finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Barozzini , Lorenzo Clemente , Thomas Colcombet , Paweł Parys

An $\omega$-tree-automatic structure is a relational structure whose domain and relations are accepted by Muller or Rabin tree automata. We investigate in this paper the isomorphism problem for $\omega$-tree-automatic structures. We prove…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Olivier Finkel , Stevo Todorcevic

Automatic structures are finitely presented structures where the universe and all relations can be recognized by finite automata. It is known that the isomorphism problem for automatic structures is complete for $\Sigma^1_1$; the first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Dietrich Kuske , Jiamou Liu , Markus Lohrey

We consider two-variable first-order logic $\text{FO}^2$ and its quantifier alternation hierarchies over both finite and infinite words. Our main results are forbidden patterns for deterministic automata (finite words) and for Carton-Michel…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Viktor Henriksson , Manfred Kufleitner

We study the expressive power of First-Order Logic (\FO) over (unordered) infinite trees, with the aim of identifying robust characterisations in terms of branching-time specification formalisms. While such correspondences are well…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Massimo Benerecetti , Dario Della Monica , Angelo Matteo , Fabio Mogavero , Gabriele Puppis

This paper considers finite-automata based algorithms for handling linear arithmetic with both real and integer variables. Previous work has shown that this theory can be dealt with by using finite automata on infinite words, but this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Boigelot , Sebastien Jodogne , Pierre Wolper

In this paper, we study First Order Logic (FO) over (unordered) infinite trees and its connection with branching-time temporal logics. More specifically, we provide an automata-theoretic characterisation of FO interpreted over infinite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Massimo Benerecetti , Dario Della Monica , Angelo Matteo , Fabio Mogavero , Gabriele Puppis

In this paper we give automata-based representation of LTL-FO$^+$ properties. LTL-FO$^+$ is an extension of LTL that includes first-order quantification over bounded variable, thus greatly increasing the expressivity of the language. An…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Yannick Lebrun , Raphaël Khoury , Sylvain Hallé

In this article, we give a precise mathematical meaning to `linear? time' that matches experimental behaviour of the algorithm. The sorting algorithm is not our own, it is a variant of radix sort with counting sort as a subroutine. The true…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Laurent Lyaudet

We introduce layered automata, a subclass of alternating parity automata that generalises deterministic automata. Assuming a consistency property, these automata are history deterministic and 0-1 probabilistic. We show that every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Antonio Casares , Christof Löding , Igor Walukiewicz

For some fixed alphabet A, a language L of A* is in the class L(1/2) of the Straubing-Therien hierarchy if and only if it can be expressed as a finite union of languages A*aA*bA*...A*cA*, where a,b,...,c are letters. The class L(1) is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Heinz Schmitz , Klaus W. Wagner

An infinite permutation $\alpha$ is a linear ordering of $\mathbb N$. We study properties of infinite permutations analogous to those of infinite words, and show some resemblances and some differences between permutations and words. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Anna Frid , Luca Zamboni

While the complexity of translating future linear temporal logic (LTL) into automata on infinite words is well-understood, the size increase involved in turning automata back to LTL is not. In particular, there is no known elementary bound…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Udi Boker , Karoliina Lehtinen , Salomon Sickert

The $\omega$-power of a finitary language L over a finite alphabet $\Sigma$ is the language of infinite words over $\Sigma$ defined by L $\infty$ := {w 0 w 1. .. $\in$ $\Sigma$ $\omega$ | $\forall$i $\in$ $\omega$ w i $\in$ L}. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Olivier Finkel , Dominique Lecomte

The main result of this paper is that the isomorphism for omega-automatic trees of finite height is at least has hard as second-order arithmetic and therefore not analytical. This strengthens a recent result by Hjorth, Khoussainov,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Dietrich Kuske , Jiamou Liu , Markus Lohrey

Tree sets are abstract structures that can be used to model various tree-shaped objects in combinatorics. Finite tree sets can be represented by finite graph-theoretical trees. We extend this representation theory to infinite tree sets.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 J. Pascal Gollin , Jay Lilian Kneip

Given a countable scattered linear order $L$ of Hausdorff rank $\alpha < \omega_1$ we show that it has a $d\text{-}\Sigma_{2\alpha+1}$ Scott sentence. Ash calculated the back and forth relations for all countable well-orders. From this…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Rachael Alvir , Dino Rossegger

Sets with atoms serve as an alternative to ZFC foundations for mathematics, where some infinite, though highly symmetric sets, behave in a finitistic way. Therefore, one can try to carry over analysis of the classical algorithms from finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Michał R. Przybyłek

Numerous computer systems use dynamic control and data structures of unbounded size. These data structures have often the character of trees or they can be encoded as trees with some additional pointers. This is exploited by some currently…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Ondřej Lengál

Finitary Idealized Concurrent Algol (FICA) is a prototypical programming language combining functional, imperative, and concurrent computation. There exists a fully abstract game model of FICA, which in principle can be used to prove…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Alex Dixon , Ranko Lazić , Andrzej S. Murawski , Igor Walukiewicz