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Dynamic Membership for Regular Languages

Authors Antoine Amarilli , Louis Jachiet, Charles Paperman

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  • Theory of computation → Formal languages and automata theory
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  • regular language
  • membership
  • RAM model
  • updates
  • dynamic

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Abstract

We study the dynamic membership problem for regular languages: fix a language L, read a word w, build in time O(|w|) a data structure indicating if w is in L, and maintain this structure efficiently under letter substitutions on w. We consider this problem on the unit cost RAM model with logarithmic word length, where the problem always has a solution in O(log|w| / log log|w|) per operation.
We show that the problem is in O(log log|w|) for languages in an algebraically-defined, decidable class QSG, and that it is in O(1) for another such class QLZG. We show that languages not in QSG admit a reduction from the prefix problem for a cyclic group, so that they require Ω(log|w| /log log|w|) operations in the worst case; and that QSG languages not in QLZG admit a reduction from the prefix problem for the multiplicative monoid U₁ = {0, 1}, which we conjecture cannot be maintained in O(1). This yields a conditional trichotomy. We also investigate intermediate cases between O(1) and O(log log|w|).
Our results are shown via the dynamic word problem for monoids and semigroups, for which we also give a classification. We thus solve open problems of the paper of Skovbjerg Frandsen, Miltersen, and Skyum [Skovbjerg Frandsen et al., 1997] on the dynamic word problem, and additionally cover regular languages.

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Antoine Amarilli, Louis Jachiet, and Charles Paperman. Dynamic Membership for Regular Languages. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 116:1-116:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.116

Author Details

Antoine Amarilli
  • LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Louis Jachiet
  • LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Charles Paperman
  • Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRIA, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, F-59000 Lille, France

Funding

The authors have been partially supported by the ANR project EQUUS ANR-19-CE48-0019. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 431183758.

Acknowledgements

We thank Jean-Éric Pin and Jorge Almeida for their advice on ZG and SG, and thank the ICALP referees for their helpful feedback.

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