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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5

Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers

Authors: C. Aiswarya, Soumodev Mal, and Prakash Saivasan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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We study the satisfiability of string constraints where context-free membership constraints may be imposed on variables. Additionally a variable may be constrained to be a subword of a word obtained by shuffling variables and their transductions. The satisfiability problem is known to be undecidable even without rational transductions. It is known to be NExptime-complete without transductions, if the subword relations between variables do not have a cyclic dependency between them. We show that the satisfiability problem stays decidable in this fragment even when rational transductions are added. It is 2NExptime-complete with context-free membership, and NExptime-complete with only regular membership. For the lower bound we prove a technical lemma that is of independent interest: The length of the shortest word in the intersection of a pushdown automaton (of size 𝒪(n)) and n finite-state automata (each of size 𝒪(n)) can be double exponential in n.

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C. Aiswarya, Soumodev Mal, and Prakash Saivasan. Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 5:1-5:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{aiswarya_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5,
  author =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mal, Soumodev and Saivasan, Prakash},
  title =	{{Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197154},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: satisfiability, subword, string constraints, context-free, transducers}
}

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