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We consider higher-dimensional versions of Kannan and Lipton's Orbit Problem---determining whether a target vector space V may be reached from a starting point x under repeated applications of a linear transformation A. Answering two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Ventsislav Chonev , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

The higher-dimensional version of Kannan and Lipton's Orbit Problem asks whether it is decidable if a target subspace can be reached from a starting point under repeated application of a linear transformation. Similarly, the continuous…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Samuel Everett

The Orbit Problem asks whether the orbit of a point under a matrix reaches a given target set. When the target is a single point, the problem was shown to be decidable in polynomial time by Kannan and Lipton. This decidability result was…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Piotr Bacik , Anton Varonka

The Orbit Problem consists of determining, given a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{d\times d}$ and vectors $x,y\in \mathbb{R}^d$, whether there exists $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $A^n=y$. This problem was shown to be decidable in a seminal work of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Shaull Almagor , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

In this letter, we revisit the {\em orbit problem}, which was studied in \cite{HAR69,SHA79,KL86}. In \cite{KL86}, Kannan and Lipton proved that this problem is decidable in polynomial time. In this paper, we study the {\em approximate orbit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-20 Taolue Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Nengkun Yu

We consider reachability decision problems for linear dynamical systems: Given a linear map on $\mathbb{R}^d$ , together with source and target sets, determine whether there is a point in the source set whose orbit, obtained by repeatedly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Toghrul Karimov , Edon Kelmendi , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

The \emph{Orbit Problem} consists of determining, given a linear transformation $A$ on $\mathbb{Q}^d$, together with vectors $x$ and $y$, whether the orbit of $x$ under repeated applications of $A$ can ever reach $y$. This problem was…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Pierre Ohlmann , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , James Worrell

We settle the equivalence between the problem of hitting a polyhedral set by the orbit of a linear map and the intersection of a regular language and a language of permutations of binary words (the permutation filter realizability problem).…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-07 S. Tarasov , M. Vyalyi

Geometric hitting set problems, in which we seek a smallest set of points that collectively hit a given set of ranges, are ubiquitous in computational geometry. Most often, the set is discrete and is given explicitly. We propose new…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jean Cardinal , Xavier Goaoc , Sarah Wajsbrot

We study a parametric version of the Kannan-Lipton Orbit Problem for linear dynamical systems. We show decidability in the case of one parameter and Skolem-hardness with two or more parameters. More precisely, consider a $d$-dimensional…

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which in general are assumed to be defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , João Sousa-Pinto , James Worrell

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over continuous time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which are assumed to be the image under a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Mohan Dantam , Amaury Pouly

The Peterson hit problem in algebraic topology is to explicitly determine the dimension of the quotient space $Q\mathcal P_k = \mathbb F_2\otimes_{\mathcal A}\mathcal P_k$ in positive degrees, where $\mathcal{P}_k$ denotes the polynomial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Dang Vo Phuc

This paper deals with the problem of point-to-point reachability in multi-linear systems. These systems consist of a partition of the Euclidean space into a finite number of regions and a constant derivative assigned to each region in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Olga Tveretina , Daniel Funke

In view of solving problems of geometric realizability of polyhedra with given geometric constraints, we describe the space of geometric realizations of a simply-connected triangulated euclidean polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^3$ up to similarity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Maria Hempel

In this paper, the reachability of dimension-bounded linear systems is investigated.Since state dimensions of dimension-bounded linear systems vary with time, the expression of state dimension at each time is provided.A method for judging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Yiliang Li , Haitao Li , Jun-e Feng , Jinjin Li

The continuous evolution of a wide variety of systems, including continuous-time Markov chains and linear hybrid automata, can be described in terms of linear differential equations. In this paper we study the decision problem of whether…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ventsislav Chonev , Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

The Semialgebraic Orbit Problem is a fundamental reachability question that arises in the analysis of discrete-time linear dynamical systems such as automata, Markov chains, recurrence sequences, and linear while loops. An instance of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Shaull Almagor , Joël Oukanine , James Worrell

We study fundamental reachability problems on pseudo-orbits of linear dynamical systems. Pseudo-orbits can be viewed as a model of computation with limited precision and pseudo-reachability can be thought of as a robust version of classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Julian D'Costa , Toghrul Karimov , Rupak Majumdar , Joël Ouaknine , Mahmoud Salamati , James Worrell

Considering a finite intersection of balls and a finite union of other balls in an Euclidean space, we propose an exact method to test whether the intersection is covered by the union. We reformulate this problem into quadratic programming…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-26 Vincent Runge
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