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Determinisability of one-clock timed automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2020-07-21 v1

Abstract

The deterministic membership problem for timed automata asks whether the timed language recognised by a nondeterministic timed automaton can be recognised by a deterministic timed automaton. We show that the problem is decidable when the input automaton is a one-clock nondeterministic timed automaton without epsilon transitions and the number of clocks of the deterministic timed automaton is fixed. We show that the problem in all the other cases is undecidable, i.e., when either 1) the input nondeterministic timed automaton has two clocks or more, or 2) it uses epsilon transitions, or 3) the number of clocks of the output deterministic automaton is not fixed.

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@article{arxiv.2007.09340,
  title  = {Determinisability of one-clock timed automata},
  author = {Lorenzo Clemente and Sławomir Lasota and Radosław Piórkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09340},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

full version of the homonymous paper accepted at CONCUR'20

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