496 research outputs found
Decidable and undecidable problems about quantum automata
We study the following decision problem: is the language recognized by a
quantum finite automaton empty or non-empty? We prove that this problem is
decidable or undecidable depending on whether recognition is defined by strict
or non-strict thresholds. This result is in contrast with the corresponding
situation for probabilistic finite automata for which it is known that strict
and non-strict thresholds both lead to undecidable problems.Comment: 10 page
Undecidability of recognized by measure many 1-way quantum automata
Let and be the
languages recognized by {\em measure many 1-way quantum finite automata
(MMQFA)} (or,{\em enhanced 1-way quantum finite automata(EQFA)})
with strict, resp. non-strict cut-point . We consider the languages
equivalence problem, showing that
\begin{itemize}
\item {both strict and non-strict languages equivalence are undecidable;}
\item {to do this, we provide an additional proof of the undecidability of
non-strict and strict emptiness of MMQFA(EQFA), and then reducing the languages
equivalence problem to emptiness problem;}
\item{Finally, some other Propositions derived from the above results are
collected.}
\end{itemize}Comment: Readability improved, title change
(Un)decidable Problems about Reachability of Quantum Systems
We study the reachability problem of a quantum system modelled by a quantum
automaton. The reachable sets are chosen to be boolean combinations of (closed)
subspaces of the state space of the quantum system. Four different reachability
properties are considered: eventually reachable, globally reachable, ultimately
forever reachable, and infinitely often reachable. The main result of this
paper is that all of the four reachability properties are undecidable in
general; however, the last three become decidable if the reachable sets are
boolean combinations without negation
On equivalence, languages equivalence and minimization of multi-letter and multi-letter measure-many quantum automata
We first show that given a -letter quantum finite automata
and a -letter quantum finite automata over
the same input alphabet , they are equivalent if and only if they are
-equivalent where , , are the
numbers of state in respectively, and . By
applying a method, due to the author, used to deal with the equivalence problem
of {\it measure many one-way quantum finite automata}, we also show that a
-letter measure many quantum finite automaton and a
-letter measure many quantum finite automaton are
equivalent if and only if they are -equivalent
where , , are the numbers of state in respectively,
and .
Next, we study the language equivalence problem of those two kinds of quantum
finite automata. We show that for -letter quantum finite automata, the
non-strict cut-point language equivalence problem is undecidable, i.e., it is
undecidable whether
where
and are -letter quantum finite automata.
Further, we show that both strict and non-strict cut-point language equivalence
problem for -letter measure many quantum finite automata are undecidable.
The direct consequences of the above outcomes are summarized in the paper.
Finally, we comment on existing proofs about the minimization problem of one
way quantum finite automata not only because we have been showing great
interest in this kind of problem, which is very important in classical automata
theory, but also due to that the problem itself, personally, is a challenge.
This problem actually remains open.Comment: 30 pages, conclusion section correcte
When is Containment Decidable for Probabilistic Automata?
The containment problem for quantitative automata is the natural quantitative generalisation of the classical language inclusion problem for Boolean automata. We study it for probabilistic automata, where it is known to be undecidable in general. We restrict our study to the class of probabilistic automata with bounded ambiguity. There, we show decidability (subject to Schanuel's conjecture) when one of the automata is assumed to be unambiguous while the other one is allowed to be finitely ambiguous. Furthermore, we show that this is close to the most general decidable fragment of this problem by proving that it is already undecidable if one of the automata is allowed to be linearly ambiguous
A Survey on Continuous Time Computations
We provide an overview of theories of continuous time computation. These
theories allow us to understand both the hardness of questions related to
continuous time dynamical systems and the computational power of continuous
time analog models. We survey the existing models, summarizing results, and
point to relevant references in the literature
Quantum finite automata and linear context-free languages: a decidable problem
We consider the so-called measure once finite quantum automata model introduced by Moore and Crutchfield in 2000. We show that given a language recognized by such a device and a linear context-free language, it is recursively decidable whether or not they have a nonempty intersection. This extends a result of Blondel et al. which can be interpreted as solving the problem with the free monoid in place of the family of linear context-free languages. © 2013 Springer-Verlag
Vector Reachability Problem in
The decision problems on matrices were intensively studied for many decades
as matrix products play an essential role in the representation of various
computational processes. However, many computational problems for matrix
semigroups are inherently difficult to solve even for problems in low
dimensions and most matrix semigroup problems become undecidable in general
starting from dimension three or four.
This paper solves two open problems about the decidability of the vector
reachability problem over a finitely generated semigroup of matrices from
and the point to point reachability (over rational
numbers) for fractional linear transformations, where associated matrices are
from . The approach to solving reachability problems
is based on the characterization of reachability paths between points which is
followed by the translation of numerical problems on matrices into
computational and combinatorial problems on words and formal languages. We also
give a geometric interpretation of reachability paths and extend the
decidability results to matrix products represented by arbitrary labelled
directed graphs. Finally, we will use this technique to prove that a special
case of the scalar reachability problem is decidable
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