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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.16

On the Separability Problem of String Constraints

Authors: Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Vrunda Dave, and Shankara Narayanan Krishna

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 171, 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)

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We address the separability problem for straight-line string constraints. The separability problem for languages of a class C by a class S asks: given two languages A and B in C, does there exist a language I in S separating A and B (i.e., I is a superset of A and disjoint from B)? The separability of string constraints is the same as the fundamental problem of interpolation for string constraints. We first show that regular separability of straight line string constraints is undecidable. Our second result is the decidability of the separability problem for straight-line string constraints by piece-wise testable languages, though the precise complexity is open. In our third result, we consider the positive fragment of piece-wise testable languages as a separator, and obtain an ExpSpace algorithm for the separability of a useful class of straight-line string constraints, and a Pspace-hardness result.

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Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Vrunda Dave, and Shankara Narayanan Krishna. On the Separability Problem of String Constraints. In 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 171, pp. 16:1-16:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{abdulla_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.16,
  author =	{Abdulla, Parosh Aziz and Atig, Mohamed Faouzi and Dave, Vrunda and Krishna, Shankara Narayanan},
  title =	{{On the Separability Problem of String Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-160-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{171},
  editor =	{Konnov, Igor and Kov\'{a}cs, Laura},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-128286},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: string constraints, separability, interpolants}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.43

Synthesis of Computable Regular Functions of Infinite Words

Authors: Vrunda Dave, Emmanuel Filiot, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Nathan Lhote

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 171, 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)

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Regular functions from infinite words to infinite words can be equivalently specified by MSO-transducers, streaming ω-string transducers as well as deterministic two-way transducers with look-ahead. In their one-way restriction, the latter transducers define the class of rational functions. Even though regular functions are robustly characterised by several finite-state devices, even the subclass of rational functions may contain functions which are not computable (by a Turing machine with infinite input). This paper proposes a decision procedure for the following synthesis problem: given a regular function f (equivalently specified by one of the aforementioned transducer model), is f computable and if it is, synthesize a Turing machine computing it. For regular functions, we show that computability is equivalent to continuity, and therefore the problem boils down to deciding continuity. We establish a generic characterisation of continuity for functions preserving regular languages under inverse image (such as regular functions). We exploit this characterisation to show the decidability of continuity (and hence computability) of rational and regular functions. For rational functions, we show that this can be done in NLogSpace (it was already known to be in PTime by Prieur). In a similar fashion, we also effectively characterise uniform continuity of regular functions, and relate it to the notion of uniform computability, which offers stronger efficiency guarantees.

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Vrunda Dave, Emmanuel Filiot, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Nathan Lhote. Synthesis of Computable Regular Functions of Infinite Words. In 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 171, pp. 43:1-43:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{dave_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.43,
  author =	{Dave, Vrunda and Filiot, Emmanuel and Krishna, Shankara Narayanan and Lhote, Nathan},
  title =	{{Synthesis of Computable Regular Functions of Infinite Words}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)},
  pages =	{43:1--43:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-160-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{171},
  editor =	{Konnov, Igor and Kov\'{a}cs, Laura},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.43},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-128554},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.43},
  annote =	{Keywords: transducers, infinite words, computability, continuity, synthesis}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.12

FO-Definable Transformations of Infinite Strings

Authors: Vrunda Dave, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Ashutosh Trivedi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)

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The theory of regular and aperiodic transformations of finite strings has recently received a lot of interest. These classes can be equivalently defined using logic (Monadic second-order logic and first-order logic), two-way machines (regular two-way and aperiodic two-way transducers), and one-way register machines (regular streaming string and aperiodic streaming string transducers). These classes are known to be closed under operations such as sequential composition and regular (star-free) choice; and problems such as functional equivalence and type checking, are decidable for these classes. On the other hand, for infinite strings these results are only known for regular transformations: Alur, Filiot, and Trivedi studied transformations of infinite strings and introduced an extension of streaming string transducers over infinte strings and showed that they capture monadic second-order definable transformations for infinite strings. In this paper we extend their work to recover connection for infinite strings among first-order logic definable transformations, aperiodic two-way transducers, and aperiodic streaming string transducers.

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Vrunda Dave, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Ashutosh Trivedi. FO-Definable Transformations of Infinite Strings. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 12:1-12:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{dave_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.12,
  author =	{Dave, Vrunda and Krishna, Shankara Narayanan and Trivedi, Ashutosh},
  title =	{{FO-Definable Transformations of Infinite Strings}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68476},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Transducers, FO-definability, Infinite Strings}
}

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