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Highly Undecidable Problems For Infinite Computations
We show that many classical decision problems about 1-counter
omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational
relations, are -complete, hence located at the second level of the
analytical hierarchy, and "highly undecidable". In particular, the universality
problem, the inclusion problem, the equivalence problem, the determinizability
problem, the complementability problem, and the unambiguity problem are all
-complete for context-free omega-languages or for infinitary rational
relations. Topological and arithmetical properties of 1-counter
omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational
relations, are also highly undecidable. These very surprising results provide
the first examples of highly undecidable problems about the behaviour of very
simple finite machines like 1-counter automata or 2-tape automata.Comment: to appear in RAIRO-Theoretical Informatics and Application
Borel Ranks and Wadge Degrees of Context Free Omega Languages
We show that, from a topological point of view, considering the Borel and the
Wadge hierarchies, 1-counter B\"uchi automata have the same accepting power
than Turing machines equipped with a B\"uchi acceptance condition. In
particular, for every non null recursive ordinal alpha, there exist some
Sigma^0_alpha-complete and some Pi^0_alpha-complete omega context free
languages accepted by 1-counter B\"uchi automata, and the supremum of the set
of Borel ranks of context free omega languages is the ordinal gamma^1_2 which
is strictly greater than the first non recursive ordinal. This very surprising
result gives answers to questions of H. Lescow and W. Thomas [Logical
Specifications of Infinite Computations, In:"A Decade of Concurrency", LNCS
803, Springer, 1994, p. 583-621]
Polishness of some topologies related to word or tree automata
We prove that the B\"uchi topology and the automatic topology are Polish. We
also show that this cannot be fully extended to the case of a space of infinite
labelled binary trees; in particular the B\"uchi and the Muller topologies are
not Polish in this case.Comment: This paper is an extended version of a paper which appeared in the
proceedings of the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science and
Logic, CSL 2017. The main addition with regard to the conference paper
consists in the study of the B\"uchi topology and of the Muller topology in
the case of a space of trees, which now forms Section
Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial Randomness, and Zeta Functions
We introduce the zeta number, natural halting probability and natural
complexity of a Turing machine and we relate them to Chaitin's Omega number,
halting probability, and program-size complexity. A classification of Turing
machines according to their zeta numbers is proposed: divergent, convergent and
tuatara. We prove the existence of universal convergent and tuatara machines.
Various results on (algorithmic) randomness and partial randomness are proved.
For example, we show that the zeta number of a universal tuatara machine is
c.e. and random. A new type of partial randomness, asymptotic randomness, is
introduced. Finally we show that in contrast to classical (algorithmic)
randomness--which cannot be naturally characterised in terms of plain
complexity--asymptotic randomness admits such a characterisation.Comment: Accepted for publication in Information and Computin
An omega-power of a context-free language which is Borel above Delta^0_omega
We use erasers-like basic operations on words to construct a set that is both
Borel and above Delta^0_omega, built as a set V^\omega where V is a language of
finite words accepted by a pushdown automaton. In particular, this gives a
first example of an omega-power of a context free language which is a Borel set
of infinite rank.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference
Foundations of the Formal Sciences V : Infinite Games, November 26th to 29th,
2004, Bonn, Germany, Stefan Bold, Benedikt L\"owe, Thoralf R\"asch, Johan van
Benthem (eds.), College Publications at King's College (Studies in Logic),
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Topological Complexity of Locally Finite omega-Languages
to appear in Archive for Mathematical LogicInternational audienceLocally finite omega-languages were introduced by Ressayre in [Formal Languages defined by the Underlying Structure of their Words, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 53 (4), December 1988, p. 1009-1026]. These languages are defined by local sentences and extend omega-languages accepted by Büchi automata or defined by monadic second order sentences. We investigate their topological complexity. All locally finite omega languages are analytic sets, the class LOC_omega of locally finite omega-languages meets all finite levels of the Borel hierarchy and there exist some locally finite omega-languages which are Borel sets of infinite rank or even analytic but non-Borel sets. This gives partial answers to questions of Simonnet [Automates et Théorie Descriptive, Ph. D. Thesis, Université Paris 7, March 1992] and of Duparc, Finkel, and Ressayre [Computer Science and the Fine Structure of Borel Sets, Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 257 (1-2), 2001, p.85-105]
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