Continuous One-Counter Automata

Speaker(s)

Filip Mazowiecki

Affiliation

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Date

Feb. 24, 2021, 2:15 p.m.

Information about the event

online

Seminar

Seminar Automata Theory

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We study the reachability problem for continuous one-counter automata, COCA for short. In such automata, transitions are guarded by upper and lower bound tests against the counter value. Additionally, the counter updates associated with taking transitions can be (non-deterministically) scaled down by a nonzero factor between zero and one. Our three main results are as follows: (1) We prove that the reachability problem for COCA with global upper and lower bound tests is in NC2; (2) that, in general, the problem is decidable in polynomial time; and (3) that it is decidable in the polynomial hierarchy for COCA with parametric counter updates and bound tests. This is joint work with Michael Blondin, Tim Leys, Philip Offtermatt and Guillermo A. Pérez.

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