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The Semilinear Home-Space Problem Is Ackermann-Complete for Petri Nets

Authors Petr Jančar , Jérôme Leroux

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
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  • Petri nets
  • home-space property
  • semilinear sets
  • Ackermannian complexity

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Abstract

A set of configurations H is a home-space for a set of configurations X of a Petri net if every configuration reachable from (any configuration in) X can reach (some configuration in) H. The semilinear home-space problem for Petri nets asks, given a Petri net and semilinear sets of configurations X, H, if H is a home-space for X. In 1989, David de Frutos Escrig and Colette Johnen proved that the problem is decidable when X is a singleton and H is a finite union of linear sets with the same periods. In this paper, we show that the general (semilinear) problem is decidable. This result is obtained by proving a duality between the reachability problem and the non-home-space problem. In particular, we prove that for any Petri net and any linear set of configurations L we can effectively compute a semilinear set C of configurations, called a non-reachability core for L, such that for every set X the set L is not a home-space for X if, and only if, C is reachable from X. We show that the established relation to the reachability problem yields the Ackermann-completeness of the (semilinear) home-space problem. For this we also show that, given a Petri net with an initial marking, the set of minimal reachable markings can be constructed in Ackermannian time.

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Petr Jančar and Jérôme Leroux. The Semilinear Home-Space Problem Is Ackermann-Complete for Petri Nets. In 34th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 279, pp. 36:1-36:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.36

Author Details

Petr Jančar
  • Dept of Comp. Sci., Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jérôme Leroux
  • LaBRI, CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, France

Funding

  • Leroux, Jérôme: supported by the grant ANR-17-CE40-0028 of the French National Research Agency ANR (project BRAVAS).

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