On Guarding Nested Fixpoints

  • Authors:
  • Helmut Seidl;Andreas Neumann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSL '99 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop and 8th Annual Conference of the EACSL on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

For every hierarchicalsystem of equations S over some complete and distributive lattice we construct an equivalent system with the same set of variables which additionally is guarded. The price to be paid is that the resulting right-hand sides may grow exponentially. We therefore present methods how the exponentialbl ow-up can be avoided. Especially, the loop structure of the variable dependence graph is taken into account. Also we prove that size O(mċ|S|) suffices whenever S originates from a fixpoint expression where the nesting-depth of fixpoints is at most m. Finally, we sketch an application to regular tree pattern-matching.