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We study counting-regular languages -- these are languages $L$ for which there is a regular language $L'$ such that the number of strings of length $n$ in $L$ and $L'$ are the same for all $n$. We show that the languages accepted by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan , Bala Ravikumar

In this paper we consider the class of lambda-nondeterministic linear automata as a model of the class of linear languages. As usual in other automata models, lambda-moves do not increase the acceptance power. The main contribution of this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Benjamín Bedregal

SAT is not in P, is true and provable in a simply consistent extension B' of a first order theory B of computing, with a single finite axiom characterizing a universal Turing machine. Therefore, P is not equal to NP, is true and provable in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Sten-Ake Tarnlund

In this paper we introduce a class of constraint logic programs such that their termination can be proved by using affine level mappings. We show that membership to this class is decidable in polynomial time.

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fred Mesnard , Alexander Serebrenik

We provide a logical characterization of non-deterministic polynomial time defined by BSS machines over semirings via existential second-order logic interpreted in the semiring semantics developed by Gr\"adel and Tannen. Furthermore, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Timon Barlag , Nicolas Fröhlich , Teemu Hankala , Miika Hannula , Minna Hirvonen , Vivian Holzapfel , Juha Kontinen , Arne Meier , Laura Strieker

The depth-bounded fragment of the pi-calculus is an expressive class of systems enjoying decidability of some important verification problems. Unfortunately membership of the fragment is undecidable. We propose a novel type system,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Emanuele D'Osualdo , Luke Ong

This paper investigates the decidability of opacity in timed automata (TA), a property that has been proven to be undecidable in general. First, we address a theoretical gap in recent work by J. An et al. (FM 2024) by providing necessary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Weilin Deng , Daowen Qiu , Jingkai Yang

Fix a prime $p$. We prove that the set of sentences true in all but finitely many finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ is undecidable in the language of valued fields with a cross-section. The proof goes via reduction to characteristic $p$,…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Konstantinos Kartas

We show that deterministic collapsible pushdown automata of second order can recognize a language that is not recognizable by any deterministic higher-order pushdown automaton (without collapse) of any order. This implies that there exists…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Paweł Parys

We investigate the minimum cases for realtime probabilistic machines that can define uncountably many languages with bounded error. We show that logarithmic space is enough for realtime PTMs on unary languages. On binary case, we follow the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Let $P(x)$ be an irreducible quadratic polynomial in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$. We show that for almost all $n$, $P(n)$ does not lie in the range of Euler's totient function.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Noah Lebowitz-Lockard

Finite-turn pushdown automata (PDA) are investigated concerning their descriptional complexity. It is known that they accept exactly the class of ultralinear context-free languages. Furthermore, the increase in size when converting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-08 Andreas Malcher , Giovanni Pighizzini

It is well-known that typability, type inhabitation and type inference are undecidable in the Girard-Reynolds polymorphic system F. It has recently been proven that type inhabitation remains undecidable even in the predicative fragment of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 M. Clarence Protin , Gilda Ferreira

The separability problem for word languages of a class $\mathcal{C}$ by languages of a class $\mathcal{S}$ asks, for two given languages $I$ and $E$ from $\mathcal{C}$, whether there exists a language $S$ from $\mathcal{S}$ that includes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wojciech Czerwiński , Wim Martens , Lorijn van Rooijen , Marc Zeitoun , Georg Zetzsche

In this paper we consider a nondeterministic computation by deterministic multi-head 2-way automata having a read-only access to an auxiliary memory. The memory contains additional data (a guess) and computation is successful iff it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-18 M. N. Vyalyi

An {\omega}-language is a set of infinite words over a finite alphabet X. We consider the class of recursive {\omega}-languages, i.e. the class of {\omega}-languages accepted by Turing machines with a B\"uchi acceptance condition, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Olivier Finkel

We prove that the inhabitation problem for rank two intersection types is decidable, but (contrary to common belief) EXPTIME-hard. The exponential time hardness is shown by reduction from the in-place acceptance problem for alternating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dariusz Kusmierek

Recursive calls over recursive data are useful for generating probability distributions, and probabilistic programming allows computations over these distributions to be expressed in a modular and intuitive way. Exact inference is also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Chiang , Colin McDonald , Chung-chieh Shan

We introduce a novel variant of BSS machines called Separate Branching BSS machines (S-BSS in short) and develop a Fagin-type logical characterisation for languages decidable in non-deterministic polynomial time by S-BSS machines. We show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Miika Hannula , Juha Kontinen , Jan Van den Bussche , Jonni Virtema

The paper gives an example of a tree language G that is recognised by an unambiguous parity automaton and is analytic-complete as a set in Cantor space. This already shows that the unambiguous languages are topologically more complex than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Szczepan Hummel