Petri Nets, Commutative Context-Free Grammars, and Basic Parallel Processes

  • Authors:
  • Javier Esparza

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, München, Germany. esparza@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The paper provides a structural characterisation of the reachable markings of Petri nets in which every transition has exactly one input place. As a corollary, the reachability problem for this class is proved to be NP-complete. Further consequences are: the uniform word problem for commutative context-free grammars is NP-complete; weak-bisimilarity is semidecidable for Basic Parallel Processes.