Multiply-recursive upper bounds with Higman's Lemma

  • Authors:
  • S. Schmitz;Ph. Schnoebelen

  • Affiliations:
  • LSV, ENS Cachan & CNRS, Cachan, France;LSV, ENS Cachan & CNRS, Cachan, France

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'11 Proceedings of the 38th international conference on Automata, languages and programming - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We develop a new analysis for the length of controlled bad sequences in well-quasi-orderings based on Higman's Lemma. This leads to tight multiply-recursive upper bounds that readily apply to several verification algorithms for well-structured systems.