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The reachability problem for two-dimensional vector addition systems with states

Abstract:
We prove that the reachability problem for two-dimensional vector addition systems with states is NL-complete or PSPACE-complete, depending on whether the numbers in the input are encoded in unary or binary. As a key underlying technical result, we show that, if a configuration is reachable, then there exists a witnessing path whose sequence of transitions is contained in a bounded language defined by a regular expression of pseudo-polynomially bounded length. This, in turn, enables us to prove that the lengths of minimal reachability witnesses are pseudo-polynomially bounded.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1145/3464794

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
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Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery
Journal:
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Volume:
68
Issue:
5
Article number:
34
Publication date:
2021-08-12
Acceptance date:
2021-05-03
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EISSN:
1557-735X
ISSN:
0004-5411


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1174140
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pubs:1174140
Deposit date:
2021-05-04

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