Strong Invariants Are Hard: On the Hardness of Strongest Polynomial Invariants for (Probabilistic) Programs

J Müllner, M Moosbrugger, L Kovács - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We show that computing the strongest polynomial invariant for single-path loops with
polynomial assignments is at least as hard as the Skolem problem, a famous problem …

Comparison-free polyregular functions

LTDT Nguyễn, C Noûs, P Pradic - 48th International Colloquium …, 2021 - drops.dagstuhl.de
This paper introduces a new automata-theoretic class of string-to-string functions with
polynomial growth. Several equivalent definitions are provided: a machine model which is a …

Simple C2-finite Sequences: a Computable Generalization of C-finite Sequences

P Nuspl, V Pillwein - Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A sequence is called C-finite, if it satisfies a linear recurrence with constant coefficients and
holonomic, if it satisfies a linear recurrence with polynomial coefficients. The class of C2 …

Bidimensional linear recursive sequences and universality of unambiguous register automata

C Barloy, L Clemente - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01033, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the universality and inclusion problems for register automata over equality data.
We show that the universality and the inclusion problems can be solved with 2-EXPTIME …

On rational recursive sequences

L Clemente, M Donten-Bury, F Mazowiecki… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study the class of rational recursive sequences (ratrec) over the rational numbers. A
ratrec sequence is defined via a system of sequences using mutually recursive equations of …

MC-finiteness of restricted set partition functions

Y Filmus, E Fischer, JA Makowsky, V Rakita - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A sequence $ s (n) $ of integers is MC-finite if for every $ m\in\mathbb {N}^+ $ the sequence
$ s^ m (n)= s (n)\bmod {m} $ is ultimately periodic. We discuss various ways of proving and …

Weighted basic parallel processes and combinatorial enumeration

L Clemente - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03638, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study weighted basic parallel processes (WBPP), a nonlinear recursive generalisation of
weighted finite automata inspired from process algebra and Petri net theory. Our main result …

Strong Invariants Are Hard: On the Hardness of Strongest Polynomial Invariants for (Probabilistic) Programs

J Müllner, M Moosbrugger, L Kovács - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10902, 2023 - arxiv.org
We show that computing the strongest polynomial invariant for single-path loops with
polynomial assignments is at least as hard as the Skolem problem, a famous problem …

Comparison-free polyregular functions

LTDT Nguyên, C Noûs, C Pradic - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08358, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a new automata-theoretic class of string-to-string functions with
polynomial growth. Several equivalent definitions are provided: a machine model which is a …

On the complexity of the universality and inclusion problems for unambiguous context-free grammars (technical report)

L Clemente - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05275, 2020 - arxiv.org
We study the computational complexity of universality and inclusion problems for
unambiguous finite automata and context-free grammars. We observe that several such …