Language Equivalence is Undecidable in VASS with Restricted Nondeterminism

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Main Authors: Czerwiński, Wojciech, Orlikowski, Łukasz
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author Czerwiński, Wojciech
Orlikowski, Łukasz
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Orlikowski, Łukasz
contents In this work, we extend undecidability of language equivalence for two-dimensional Vector Addition System with States (VASS) accepting by coverability condition. We show that the problem is undecidable even when one of the two-dimensional VASSs is deterministic and the other is history-deterministic. Moreover, we observe, that the languages of two history-deterministic VASSs are equal if and only if each can simulate the other. This observation allows us to extend the undecidability to any equivalence relation between two-sided simulation and language equivalence.
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spellingShingle Language Equivalence is Undecidable in VASS with Restricted Nondeterminism
Czerwiński, Wojciech
Orlikowski, Łukasz
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Logic in Computer Science
In this work, we extend undecidability of language equivalence for two-dimensional Vector Addition System with States (VASS) accepting by coverability condition. We show that the problem is undecidable even when one of the two-dimensional VASSs is deterministic and the other is history-deterministic. Moreover, we observe, that the languages of two history-deterministic VASSs are equal if and only if each can simulate the other. This observation allows us to extend the undecidability to any equivalence relation between two-sided simulation and language equivalence.
title Language Equivalence is Undecidable in VASS with Restricted Nondeterminism
topic Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21514