Shuffle expressions and words with nested data

  • Authors:
  • Henrik Björklund;Mikolaj Bojanczyk

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Dortmund;Warsaw University

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'07 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a theory that studies words with nested data values with the help of shuffle expressions. We study two cases, which we call "ordered" and "unordered". In the unordered case, we show that emptiness (of the two related problems) is decidable. In the ordered case, we prove undecidability. As a proof vehicle for the latter, we introduce the notion of higher-order multicounter automata.