Automatic Graphs and Graph D0L-Systems

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Ly

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '00 Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The concept of end is a classical mean of understanding the behavior of a graph at infinity. In this respect, we show that the problem of deciding whether an infinite automatic graph has more than one end is recursively undecidable. The proof is based on the analysis of some global topological properties of the configuration graph of a self-stabilizing Turing machine. Next, this result is applied to show the undecidability of connectivity of all the finite graphs produced by iterating a graph DOL-system. We also prove that the graph DOL-systems with which we deal can emulate hyperedge replacement systems for which the above connectivity problem is decidable.