Efficient Algorithms for Membership in Boolean Hierarchies of Regular Languages

dc.creatorGlasser, Christian
dc.creatorSchmitz, Heinz
dc.creatorSelivanov, Victor
dc.date2008-02-20
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dc.descriptionThe purpose of this paper is to provide efficient algorithms that decide membership for classes of several Boolean hierarchies for which efficiency (or even decidability) were previously not known. We develop new forbidden-chain characterizations for the single levels of these hierarchies and obtain the following results: - The classes of the Boolean hierarchy over level $Σ_1$ of the dot-depth hierarchy are decidable in $NL$ (previously only the decidability was known). The same remains true if predicates mod $d$ for fixed $d$ are allowed. - If modular predicates for arbitrary $d$ are allowed, then the classes of the Boolean hierarchy over level $Σ_1$ are decidable. - For the restricted case of a two-letter alphabet, the classes of the Boolean hierarchy over level $Σ_2$ of the Straubing-Thérien hierarchy are decidable in $NL$. This is the first decidability result for this hierarchy. - The membership problems for all mentioned Boolean-hierarchy classes are logspace many-one hard for $NL$. - The membership problems for quasi-aperiodic languages and for $d$-quasi-aperiodic languages are logspace many-one complete for $PSPACE$.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2868
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2868
dc.identifierDans Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on the Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science - STACS 2008, Bordeaux : France (2008)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/155252
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.titleEfficient Algorithms for Membership in Boolean Hierarchies of Regular Languages
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