Classes of Timed Automata and the Undecidability of Universality

  • Authors:
  • Arnaldo V. Moura;Guilherme A. Pinto

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, C.P. 6176 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil. E-mail: arnaldo@ic.unicamp.br;Dep. of Computer Science, University of Brasília, C.P. 4466 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil. E-mail: gap@cic.unb.br

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Universality for deterministic Timed Büchi Automata (TBA)is PSPACE-complete but becomes highly undecidable when unrestrictednondeterminism is allowed. More precisely, universality fornondeterministic TBA is Π^1_1-hard and its precise position inthe analytical hierarchy is still an open question. In this paperwe introduce two types of syntactical restrictions tonondeterministic TBA, which are of independent interest, and showthat their universality problem is Π^1_1-complete. Theserestrictions define, as we prove, proper subclasses of the class oftimed languages defined by nondeterministic TBA. This suggests, aswe argue, that no solution to that open question will come withoutsurprise. We also establish closure properties and therelationships between the classes of languages we describe.