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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

For abstract linear systems in Hilbert spaces we revisit the problems of exact controllability and complete stabilizability (stabilizability with an arbitrary decay rate), the latter property is equivalent to exact null controllability. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Rabah Rabah , Grigory Sklyar , Pavel Yu. Barkhayev , Pavel Barkhayev , Grzegorz Szkibiel

Tree automata with one memory have been introduced in 2001. They generalize both pushdown (word) automata and the tree automata with constraints of equality between brothers of Bogaert and Tison. Though it has a decidable emptiness problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hubert Comon-Lundh , Florent Jacquemard , Nicolas Perrin

In this paper, we define the notion of {\em probabilistic $\omega$-pushdown automaton} and study its model-checking problem against the logic of $\omega$-probabilistic computational tree logic ($\omega$-PCTL) and its bounded version from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

The aim of this work is to thoroughly investigate Buchi automata augmented with spatial constraints. The input trees of such an automaton are infinite k-ary Sigma-trees, with the nodes standing for time points, and Sigma including,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Amar Isli

We consider various decision problems for automatic semigroups, which involve the provision of an automatic structure as part of the problem instance. With mild restrictions on the automatic structure, which seem to be necessary to make the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Kambites , Friedrich Otto

This paper is about reachability analysis in a restricted subclass of multi-pushdown automata. We assume that the control states of an automaton are partially ordered, and all transitions of an automaton go downwards with respect to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , SŁawomir Lasota

We consider decision problems for relations over finite and infinite words defined by finite automata. We prove that the equivalence problem for binary deterministic rational relations over infinite words is undecidable in contrast to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christof Löding , Christopher Spinrath

Timed pushdown automata are pushdown automata extended with a finite set of real-valued clocks. Additionaly, each symbol in the stack is equipped with a value representing its age. The enabledness of a transition may depend on the values of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Jari Stenman

We propose a new abstract formalism for probabilistic timed systems, Parametric Interval Probabilistic Timed Automata, based on an extension of Parametric Timed Automata and Interval Markov Chains. In this context, we consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier

Parametric timed automata extend timed automata (Alur and Dill, 1991) in that they allow the specification of parametric bounds on the clock values. Since their introduction in 1993 by Alur, Henzinger, and Vardi, it is known that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Karin Quaas

Weighted automata are non-deterministic automata where the transitions are equipped with weights. They can model quantitative aspects of systems like costs or energy consumption. The value of a run can be computed, for example, as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Manfred Droste , Vitaly Perevoshchikov

In topological dynamics, tame and null systems arise naturally in the study of low-complexity aperiodic behaviour, yet providing concrete and easily testable conditions to establish their existence in a canonical class of systems is often…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Maik Gröger , Elżbieta Krawczyk

The (left) linear hull of a weighted automaton over a field is a topological invariant. If the automaton is minimal, the linear hull can be used to determine whether or not the automaton is equivalent to a deterministic one. Furthermore,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jason P. Bell , Daniel Smertnig

We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rodrigo Raya

Alternating automata have been widely used to model and verify systems that handle data from finite domains, such as communication protocols or hardware. The main advantage of the alternating model of computation is that complementation is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Radu Iosif , Xiao Xu

We exhibit the construction of a deterministic automaton that, given k > 0, recognizes the (regular) language of k-differentiable words. Our approach follows a scheme of Crochemore et al. based on minimal forbidden words. We extend this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Jean-Marc Fédou , Gabriele Fici

We introduce an extension of classical cellular automata (CA) to arbitrary labeled graphs, and show that FO logic on CA orbits is equivalent to MSO logic. We deduce various results from that equivalence, including a characterization of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Guillaume Theyssier

We provide new insights on the determinization and minimization of tree automata using congruences on trees. From this perspective, we study a Brzozowski's style minimization algorithm for tree automata. First, we prove correct this method…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez , Pedro Valero

We introduce good-for-games $\omega$-pushdown automata ($\omega$-GFG-PDA). These are automata whose nondeterminism can be resolved based on the input processed so far. Good-for-gameness enables automata to be composed with games, trees, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Karoliina Lehtinen , Martin Zimmermann