The Star Problem in Trace Monoids: Reductions Beyond C4

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Kirsten

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '01 Proceedings of the 28th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming,
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We deal with the star problem in trace monoids which means to decide whether the iteration of a recognizable trace language is recognizable. We consider trace monoids Kn = {a1, b1}ċ ×... × {an, bn}ċ. Our main theorem asserts that the star problem is decidable in a trace monoid M iff it is decidable in the biggest Kn submonoid in M. Thus, future research on the star problem can focus on the trace monoids Kn. The recently shown decidability equivalence between the star problem and the finite power problem [14] plays a crucial role in the paper.