Some undecidability results related to the star problem in trace monoids

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Kirsten

  • Affiliations:
  • Dresden University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Software Engineering I, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • STACS'99 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper deals with decision problems related to the star problem in trace monoids, which means to determine whether the iteration of a recognizable trace language is recognizable. Due to a theorem by Richomme from 1994 [18], we know that the star problem is decidable in trace monoids which do not contain a C4-submonoid. It is not known whether the star problem is decidable in C4. In this paper, we show undecidability of some related problems: Assume a trace monoid which contains a C4. Then, it is undecidable whether for two given recognizable languages K and L, we have K ⊆ L*, although we can decide K* ⊆ L. Further, we can not decide recognizability of K ∩ L* as well as universality and recognizability of K ∪ L*.