,
Jan Martens
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We study the relation of containment up to unknown regular resynchronization between two-way non-deterministic transducers. We show that it constitutes a preorder, and that the corresponding equivalence relation is properly intermediate between origin equivalence and classical equivalence. We give a syntactical characterization for containment of two transducers up to resynchronization, and use it to show that this containment relation is undecidable already for one-way non-deterministic transducers, and for simple classes of resynchronizations. This answers the open problem stated in recent works, asking whether this relation is decidable for two-way non-deterministic transducers.
@InProceedings{kuperberg_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.58,
author = {Kuperberg, Denis and Martens, Jan},
title = {{Regular Resynchronizability of Origin Transducers Is Undecidable}},
booktitle = {45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
pages = {58:1--58:14},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-159-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2020},
volume = {170},
editor = {Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.58},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127255},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.58},
annote = {Keywords: transducers, origin, resynchronisation, MSO, one-way, two-way, undecidability}
}