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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 study the complexity of the following problems in the streaming model. Membership testing for \DLIN We show that every language in \DLIN\ can be recognised by a randomized one-pass $O(\log n)$ space algorithm with inverse polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Ajesh Babu , Nutan Limaye , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Girish Varma

The study of various decision problems for logic fragments has a long history in computer science. This paper is on the membership problem for a fragment of first-order logic over infinite words; the membership problem asks for a given…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Manfred Kufleitner , Tobias Walter

Relational reasoning is the ability to infer relations that jointly bind multiple entities, attributes, or variables. This ability is central to scientific reasoning, but existing evaluations of relational reasoning in large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lukas Fesser , Yasha Ektefaie , Ada Fang , Sham M. Kakade , Marinka Zitnik

Motivated by an application where we try to make proofs for Description Logic inferences smaller by rewriting, we consider the following decision problem, which we call the small term reachability problem: given a term rewriting system $R$,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Franz Baader , Jürgen Giesl

The complexity and decidability of various decision problems involving the shuffle operation are studied. The following three problems are all shown to be $NP$-complete: given a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) $M$, and two words $u$…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Joey Eremondi , Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

Indexed languages are a classical notion in formal language theory, which has attracted attention in recent decades due to its role in higher-order model checking: They are precisely the languages accepted by order-2 pushdown automata. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Richard Mandel , Corto Mascle , Georg Zetzsche

In this paper, we study arbitrary subword-closed languages over the alphabet $\{0,1\}$ (binary subword-closed languages). For the set of words $L(n)$ of the length $n$ belonging to a binary subword-closed language $L$, we investigate the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mikhail Moshkov

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a prominent specification formalism for real-time systems. In this paper, we show that the satisfiability problem for MTL over finite timed words is decidable, with non-primitive recursive complexity. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

Widespread use of string solvers in formal analysis of string-heavy programs has led to a growing demand for more efficient and reliable techniques which can be applied in this context, especially for real-world cases. Designing an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Murphy Berzish , Joel D. Day , Vijay Ganesh , Mitja Kulczynski , Florin Manea , Federico Mora , Dirk Nowotka

This work studies the question of learning probabilistic deterministic automata from language models. For this purpose, it focuses on analyzing the relations defined on algebraic structures over strings by equivalences and similarities on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Matías Carrasco , Franz Mayr , Sergio Yovine

We investigate the Membership Problem for hypergeometric sequences: given a hypergeometric sequence $\langle u_n \rangle_{n=0}^\infty$ of rational numbers and a target $t \in \mathbb{Q}$, decide whether $t$ occurs in the sequence. We show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Klara Nosan , Amaury Pouly , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

Deterministic synchronous systems consisting of two finite automata running in opposite directions on a shared read-only input are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

In this paper, the Identity Problem for certain groups, which asks if the subsemigroup generated by a given finite set of elements contains the identity element, is related to problems regarding ordered groups. Notably, the Identity Problem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Corentin Bodart , Laura Ciobanu , George Metcalfe

It is well known that for a regular tree language it is decidable whether or not it can be recognized by a deterministic top-down tree automaton (DTA). However, the computational complexity of this problem has not been studied. We show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Peter Leupold , Sebastian Maneth

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

Motivated by approaches to the word problem for one-relation monoids arising from work of Adian and Oganesian (1987), Guba (1997), and Ivanov, Margolis and Meakin (2001), we study the submonoid and rational subset membership problems in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Islam Foniqi , Robert D. Gray , Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of set theory with restricted quantification which extends the language studied in [4] with pair related quantifiers and constructs, in view of possible applications in the field…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo

We consider membership problems for rational subsets of the semigroup of $2\times 2$ matrices over $\mathbb{Q}$. For a semigroup $M$, the rational subsets $\mathrm{Rat}(M)$ are defined as the sets accepted by NFAs whose transitions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Volker Diekert , Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

This paper introduces and studies a notion of \emph{algorithmic randomness} for subgroups of rationals. Given a randomly generated additive subgroup $(G,+)$ of rationals, two main questions are addressed: first, what are the model-theoretic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Ziyuan Gao , Sanjay Jain , Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Wei Li , Alexander Melnikov , Karen Seidel , Frank Stephan