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In this paper, we introduce a restriction of Timed Automata (TA), called non-resetting test Timed Automata (nrtTA). An nrtTA does not allow to test and reset the same clock on the same transition. The model has the same expressive power of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

$\mu$-Calculus and automata on infinite trees are complementary ways of describing infinite tree languages. The correspondence between $\mu$-Calculus and alternating tree automaton is used to solve the satisfiability and model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-03 M. Fareed Arif

We study the model-checking problem for recursion schemes: does the tree generated by a given higher-order recursion scheme satisfy a given logical sentence. The problem is known to be decidable for sentences of the MSO logic. We prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Paweł Parys

We prove that the isomorphism of scattered tree automatic linear orders as well as the existence of automorphisms of scattered word automatic linear orders are undecidable. For the existence of automatic automorphisms of word automatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Dietrich Kuske

Complexity classes such as $\#\mathbf{P}$, $\oplus\mathbf{P}$, $\mathbf{GapP}$, $\mathbf{OptP}$, $\mathbf{NPMV}$, or the class of fuzzy languages realised by polynomial-time fuzzy nondeterministic Turing machines, can all be described in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Peter Kostolányi

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

Parikh automata extend automata with counters whose values can only be tested at the end of the computation, with respect to membership into a semi-linear set. Parikh automata have found several applications, for instance in transducer…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Emmanuel Filiot , Shibashis Guha , Nicolas Mazzocchi

This paper studies the problem of model-checking of probabilistic automaton and probabilistic one-counter automata against probabilistic branching-time temporal logics (PCTL and PCTL$^*$). We show that it is undecidable for these problems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 T. Lin

We introduce a new geometric tool for analyzing groups of finite automata. To each finite automaton we associate a square complex. The square complex is covered by a product of two trees iff the automaton is bi-reversible. Using this method…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair Glasner , Shahar Mozes

A tree automatic structure is a structure whose domain can be encoded by a regular tree language such that each relation is recognisable by a finite automaton processing tuples of trees synchronously. Words can be regarded as specific…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Martin Huschenbett

We introduce a model-complete theory which completely axiomatizes the structure $Z_{\alpha}=(Z, +, 0, 1, f)$ where $f : x \to \lfloor{\alpha} x \rfloor $ is a unary function with $\alpha$ a fixed transcendental number. When $\alpha$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Mohsen Khani , Ali N. Valizadeh , Afshin Zarei

We study the strength of set-theoretic axioms needed to prove Rabin's theorem on the decidability of the MSO theory of the infinite binary tree. We first show that the complementation theorem for tree automata, which forms the technical…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Leszek Aleksander Kołodziejczyk , Henryk Michalewski

We investigate the (non)-existence of universal automata for some classes of automata, such as finite automata and pushdown automata, and in particular the influence of the representation and encoding function. An alternative approach,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Manfred Kudlek

Topological transitivity is a fundamental notion in topological dynamics and is widely regarded as a basic indicator of global dynamical complexity. For general cellular automata, topological transitivity is known to be undecidable. By…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Niccolò Castronuovo , Alberto Dennunzio , Luciano Margara

A data word is a sequence of pairs of a letter from a finite alphabet and an element from an infinite set, where the latter can only be compared for equality. Safety one-way alternating automata with one register on infinite data words are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-12 Ranko Lazic

We study the problem of detecting zeros of continuous functions that are known only up to an error bound, extending the earlier theoretical work with explicit algorithms and experiments with an implementation. More formally, the robustness…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Peter Franek , Marek Krčál , Hubert Wagner

We define decision trees for monotone functions on a simplicial complex. We define homology decidability of monotone functions, and show that various monotone functions related to semimatroids are homology decidable. Homology decidability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Jacob A. White

It is proved that the family of tree languages recognized by nondeterministic tree-walking automata is not closed under complementation, solving a problem raised by Boja\'nczyk and Colcombet ("Tree-walking automata do not recognize all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

We consider the logic MSO+U, which is monadic second-order logic extended with the unbounding quantifier. The unbounding quantifier is used to say that a property of finite sets holds for sets of arbitrarily large size. We prove that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Paweł Parys , Szymon Toruńczyk

We investigate the orbits of automaton semigroups and groups to obtain algorithmic and structural results, both for general automata but also for some special subclasses. First, we show that a more general version of the finiteness problem…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Daniele D'Angeli , Dominik Francoeur , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter