Separability and Non-Determinizability of WSTS

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Main Authors: Czerwiński, Wojciech, Keskin, Eren, Lasota, Sławomir, Meyer, Roland, Muskalla, Sebastian, Kumar, K Narayan, Saivasan, Prakash
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author Czerwiński, Wojciech
Keskin, Eren
Lasota, Sławomir
Meyer, Roland
Muskalla, Sebastian
Kumar, K Narayan
Saivasan, Prakash
author_facet Czerwiński, Wojciech
Keskin, Eren
Lasota, Sławomir
Meyer, Roland
Muskalla, Sebastian
Kumar, K Narayan
Saivasan, Prakash
contents We study the languages recognized by well-structured transition systems (WSTS) with upward and downward compatibility. Our first result shows that every pair of disjoint WSTS languages is regularly separable: there is a regular language containing one of them while being disjoint from the other. As a consequence, if a language as well as its complement are both recognized by WSTS, then they are necessarily regular. Our second result shows that the languages recognized by deterministic WSTS form a strict subclass of the languages recognized by all WSTS: we give a non-deterministic WSTS language that we prove cannot be recognized by a deterministic WSTS. The proof relies on a novel characterization of the languages accepted by deterministic WSTS.
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spellingShingle Separability and Non-Determinizability of WSTS
Czerwiński, Wojciech
Keskin, Eren
Lasota, Sławomir
Meyer, Roland
Muskalla, Sebastian
Kumar, K Narayan
Saivasan, Prakash
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
We study the languages recognized by well-structured transition systems (WSTS) with upward and downward compatibility. Our first result shows that every pair of disjoint WSTS languages is regularly separable: there is a regular language containing one of them while being disjoint from the other. As a consequence, if a language as well as its complement are both recognized by WSTS, then they are necessarily regular. Our second result shows that the languages recognized by deterministic WSTS form a strict subclass of the languages recognized by all WSTS: we give a non-deterministic WSTS language that we prove cannot be recognized by a deterministic WSTS. The proof relies on a novel characterization of the languages accepted by deterministic WSTS.
title Separability and Non-Determinizability of WSTS
topic Formal Languages and Automata Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02736