13 research outputs found
Revisiting the Equivalence Problem for Finite Multitape Automata
The decidability of determining equivalence of deterministic multitape
automata (or transducers) was a longstanding open problem until it was resolved
by Harju and Karhum\"{a}ki in the early 1990s. Their proof of decidability
yields a co_NP upper bound, but apparently not much more is known about the
complexity of the problem. In this paper we give an alternative proof of
decidability, which follows the basic strategy of Harju and Karhumaki but
replaces their use of group theory with results on matrix algebras. From our
proof we obtain a simple randomised algorithm for deciding language equivalence
of deterministic multitape automata and, more generally, multiplicity
equivalence of nondeterministic multitape automata. The algorithm involves only
matrix exponentiation and runs in polynomial time for each fixed number of
tapes. If the two input automata are inequivalent then the algorithm outputs a
word on which they differ
Tight bounds and conjectures for the isolation lemma
Given a hypergraph and a weight function on its vertices, we say that is isolating if there is exactly one edge
of minimum weight . The Isolation Lemma is a
combinatorial principle introduced in Mulmuley et. al (1987) which gives a
lower bound on the number of isolating weight functions. Mulmuley used this as
the basis of a parallel algorithm for finding perfect graph matchings. It has a
number of other applications to parallel algorithms and to reductions of
general search problems to unique search problems (in which there are one or
zero solutions).
The original bound given by Mulmuley et al. was recently improved by Ta-Shma
(2015). In this paper, we show improved lower bounds on the number of isolating
weight functions, and we conjecture that the extremal case is when consists
of singleton edges. When our improved bound matches this extremal
case asymptotically.
We are able to show that this conjecture holds in a number of special cases:
when is a linear hypergraph or is 1-degenerate, or when . We also
show that it holds asymptotically when
Space Complexity of Perfect Matching in Bounded Genus Bipartite Graphs
We investigate the space complexity of certain perfect matching problems over
bipartite graphs embedded on surfaces of constant genus (orientable or
non-orientable). We show that the problems of deciding whether such graphs have
(1) a perfect matching or not and (2) a unique perfect matching or not, are in
the logspace complexity class \SPL. Since \SPL\ is contained in the logspace
counting classes \oplus\L (in fact in \modk\ for all ), \CeqL, and
\PL, our upper bound places the above-mentioned matching problems in these
counting classes as well. We also show that the search version, computing a
perfect matching, for this class of graphs is in \FL^{\SPL}. Our results
extend the same upper bounds for these problems over bipartite planar graphs
known earlier. As our main technical result, we design a logspace computable
and polynomially bounded weight function which isolates a minimum weight
perfect matching in bipartite graphs embedded on surfaces of constant genus. We
use results from algebraic topology for proving the correctness of the weight
function.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figure
On the Lattice Isomorphism Problem
We study the Lattice Isomorphism Problem (LIP), in which given two lattices
L_1 and L_2 the goal is to decide whether there exists an orthogonal linear
transformation mapping L_1 to L_2. Our main result is an algorithm for this
problem running in time n^{O(n)} times a polynomial in the input size, where n
is the rank of the input lattices. A crucial component is a new generalized
isolation lemma, which can isolate n linearly independent vectors in a given
subset of Z^n and might be useful elsewhere. We also prove that LIP lies in the
complexity class SZK.Comment: 23 pages, SODA 201
Revisiting the Equivalence Problem for Finite Multitape Automata
Abstract. The decidability of determining equivalence of deterministic multitape automata was a longstanding open problem until it was resolved by Harju and KarhumÀki in the early 1990s. Their proof of decidability yields a co-NP upper bound, but apparently not much more is known about the complexity of the problem. In this paper we give an alternative proof of decidability which follows the basic strategy of Harju and KarhumÀki, but replaces their use of group theory with results on matrix algebras. From our proof we obtain a simple randomised algorithm for deciding equivalence of deterministic multitape automata, as well as automata with transition weights in the field of rational numbers. The algorithm involves only matrix exponentiation and runs in polynomial time for each fixed number of tapes. If the two input automata are inequivalent then the algorithm outputs a word on which they differ
Dynamic Programming for Graphs on Surfaces
We provide a framework for the design and analysis of dynamic programming
algorithms for surface-embedded graphs on n vertices and branchwidth at most k.
Our technique applies to general families of problems where standard dynamic
programming runs in 2^{O(k log k)} n steps. Our approach combines tools from
topological graph theory and analytic combinatorics. In particular, we
introduce a new type of branch decomposition called "surface cut
decomposition", generalizing sphere cut decompositions of planar graphs
introduced by Seymour and Thomas, which has nice combinatorial properties.
Namely, the number of partial solutions that can be arranged on a surface cut
decomposition can be upper-bounded by the number of non-crossing partitions on
surfaces with boundary. It follows that partial solutions can be represented by
a single-exponential (in the branchwidth k) number of configurations. This
proves that, when applied on surface cut decompositions, dynamic programming
runs in 2^{O(k)} n steps. That way, we considerably extend the class of
problems that can be solved in running times with a single-exponential
dependence on branchwidth and unify/improve most previous results in this
direction.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figure
Space Complexity of the Directed Reachability Problem over Surface-Embedded Graphs
The graph reachability problem, the computational task of deciding whether there is a path between two given nodes in a graph is the canonical problem for studying space bounded computations. Three central open questions regarding the space complexity of the reachabil-ity problem over directed graphs are: (1) improving Savitchâs O(log2 n) space bound, (2) designing a polynomial-time algorithm with O(n1â) space bound, and (3) designing an unambiguous non-deterministic log-space (UL) algorithm. These are well-known open questions in complex-ity theory, and solving any one of them will be a major breakthrough. We will discuss some of the recent progress reported on these questions for certain subclasses of surface-embedded directed graphs
The Matching Problem in General Graphs is in Quasi-NC
We show that the perfect matching problem in general graphs is in Quasi-NC.
That is, we give a deterministic parallel algorithm which runs in
time on processors. The result is obtained by a
derandomization of the Isolation Lemma for perfect matchings, which was
introduced in the classic paper by Mulmuley, Vazirani and Vazirani [1987] to
obtain a Randomized NC algorithm.
Our proof extends the framework of Fenner, Gurjar and Thierauf [2016], who
proved the analogous result in the special case of bipartite graphs. Compared
to that setting, several new ingredients are needed due to the significantly
more complex structure of perfect matchings in general graphs. In particular,
our proof heavily relies on the laminar structure of the faces of the perfect
matching polytope.Comment: Accepted to FOCS 2017 (58th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science
On the Lattice Isomorphism Problem
Abstract We study the Lattice Isomorphism Problem (LIP), in which given two lattices L 1 and L 2 the goal is to decide whether there exists an orthogonal linear transformation mapping L 1 to L 2 . Our main result is an algorithm for this problem running in time n O(n) times a polynomial in the input size, where n is the rank of the input lattices. A crucial component is a new generalized isolation lemma, which can isolate n linearly independent vectors in a given subset of Z n and might be useful elsewhere. We also prove that LIP lies in the complexity class SZK