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On flat lossy channel machines

Logic in Computer Science 2020-07-13 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We show that reachability, repeated reachability, nontermination and unboundedness are NP-complete for Lossy Channel Machines that are flat, i.e., with no nested cycles in the control graph. The upper complexity bound relies on a fine analysis of iterations of lossy channel actions and uses compressed word techniques for efficiently reasoning with paths of exponential lengths. The lower bounds already apply to acyclic or single-path machines.

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@article{arxiv.2007.05269,
  title  = {On flat lossy channel machines},
  author = {Philippe Schnoebelen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05269},
  year   = {2020}
}

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