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Separability of Reachability Sets of Vector Addition Systems

Authors Lorenzo Clemente, Wojciech Czerwinski, Slawomir Lasota, Charles Paperman

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  • separability
  • Petri nets
  • modular sets
  • unary sets
  • decidability

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Abstract

Given two families of sets F and G, the F-separability problem for G asks whether for two given sets U, V in G there exists a set S in F, such that U is included in S and V is disjoint with S. We consider two families of sets F: modular sets S which are subsets of N^d, defined as unions of equivalence classes modulo some natural number n in N, and unary sets, which extend modular sets by requiring equality below a threshold n, and equivalence modulo n above n. Our main result is decidability of modular- and unary-separability for the class G of reachability sets of Vector Addition Systems, Petri Nets, Vector Addition Systems with States, and for sections thereof.

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Lorenzo Clemente, Wojciech Czerwinski, Slawomir Lasota, and Charles Paperman. Separability of Reachability Sets of Vector Addition Systems. In 34th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 66, pp. 24:1-24:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2017.24

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Lorenzo Clemente
Wojciech Czerwinski
Slawomir Lasota
Charles Paperman

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