Reachability in Petri Nets with Inhibitor Arcs

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Reinhardt

  • Affiliations:
  • Wilhelm-Schickhard Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Sand 13, D-72076 Tübingen, Gemany

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We define 2 operators on relations over natural numbers such that they generalize the operators '+' and '*' and show that the membership and emptiness problem of relations constructed from finite relations with these operators and @? is decidable. This generalizes Presburger arithmetics and allows to decide the reachability problem for those Petri nets where inhibitor arcs occur only in some restricted way. Especially the reachability problem is decidable for Petri nets with only one inhibitor arc, which solves an open problem in [H. Kleine Buning, T. Lettmann, and E. W. Mayr. Projections of vector addition system reachability sets are semilinear. Theoret. Comput. Sci., 64:343-350, 1989]. Furthermore we describe the corresponding automaton having a decidable emptiness problem.