Feasible automata for two-variable logic with successor on data words

  • Authors:
  • Ahmet Kara;Thomas Schwentick;Tony Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Dortmund, Germany;Technical University of Dortmund, Germany;University of Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • LATA'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce an automata model for data words, that is words that carry at each position a symbol from a finite alphabet and a value from an unbounded data domain. The model is (semantically) a restriction of data automata, introduced by Bojanczyk, et. al. in 2006, therefore it is called weak data automata. It is strictly less expressive than data automata and the expressive power is incomparable with register automata. The expressive power of weak data automata corresponds exactly to existential monadic second order logic with successor +1 and data value equality ˜, EMSO2(+1,˜). It follows from previous work, David, et. al. in 2010, that the nonemptiness problem for weak data automata can be decided in 2-NEXPTIME. Furthermore, we study weak Büchi automata on data ω-strings. They can be characterized by the extension of EMSO2(+1,˜) with existential quantifiers for infinite sets. Finally, the same complexity bound for its nonemptiness problem is established by a nondeterministic polynomial time reduction to the nonemptiness problem of weak data automata.