scholarly journals Entailment Checking in Separation Logic with Inductive Definitions is 2-EXPTIME hard

10.29007/f5wh ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mnacho Echenim ◽  
Radu Iosif ◽  
Nicolas Peltier
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Separation Logic ◽  
Membership Problem ◽  
Turing Machines ◽  
Inductive Definitions ◽  
Alternating Turing Machines ◽  
Exponential Space

The entailment between separation logic formulæ with inductive predicates, also known as sym- bolic heaps, has been shown to be decidable for a large class of inductive definitions [7]. Recently, a 2-EXPTIME algorithm was proposed [10, 14] and an EXPTIME-hard bound was established in [8]; however no precise lower bound is known. In this paper, we show that deciding entailment between predicate atoms is 2-EXPTIME-hard. The proof is based on a reduction from the membership problem for exponential-space bounded alternating Turing machines [5].

scholarly journals A space lower-bound technique for four-dimensional alternating Turing machines

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 353-356
Author(s):  
Makoto Nagatomo ◽  
Shinnosuke Yano ◽  
Makoto Sakamoto ◽  
Satoshi Ikeda ◽  
Hiroshi Furutani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Turing Machines ◽  
Alternating Turing Machines

On the braid index of links with nested diagrams

1992 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Chalcraft
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Simple Criterion ◽  
Braid Index

AbstractThe number of Seifert circuits in a diagram of a link is well known 9 to be an upper bound for the braid index of the link. The -breadth of the so-called P-polynomial 3 of the link is known 5, 2 to give a lower bound. In this paper we consider a large class of links diagrams, including all diagrams where the interior of every Seifert circuit is empty. We show that either these bounds coincide, or else the upper bound is not sharp, and we obtain a very simple criterion for distinguishing these cases.

TWO TOPICS CONCERNING TWO-DIMENSIONAL AUTOMATA OPERATING IN PARALLEL

1992 ◽  
Vol 06 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATSUSHI INOUE ◽  
ITSUO SAKURAMOTO ◽  
MAKOTO SAKAMOTO ◽  
ITSUO TAKANAMI
Keyword(s):  
Turing Machine ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Space Complexity ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Turing Machines ◽  
Small Space ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Constructible Function ◽  
Deterministic Turing Machine ◽  
Alternating Turing Machines

This paper deals with two topics concerning two-dimensional automata operating in parallel. We first investigate a relationship between the accepting powers of two-dimensional alternating finite automata (2-AFAs) and nondeterministic bottom-up pyramid cellular acceptors (NUPCAs), and show that Ω ( diameter × log diameter ) time is necessary for NUPCAs to simulate 2-AFAs. We then investigate space complexity of two-dimensional alternating Turing machines (2-ATMs) operating in small space, and show that if L (n) is a two-dimensionally space-constructible function such that lim n → ∞ L (n)/ loglog n > 1 and L (n) ≤ log n, and L′ (n) is a function satisfying L′ (n) =o (L(n)), then there exists a set accepted by some strongly L (n) space-bounded two-dimensional deterministic Turing machine, but not accepted by any weakly L′ (n) space-bounded 2-ATM, and thus there exists a rich space hierarchy for weakly S (n) space-bounded 2-ATMs with loglog n ≤ S (n) ≤ log n.

Preface

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (07) ◽  
pp. 1023-1024
Author(s):  
Serge Miguet ◽  
Annick Montanvert ◽  
P. S. P. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Finite State Machine ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Turing Machines ◽  
Closure Properties ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Finite State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Alternating Turing Machines

Several nonclosure properties of each class of sets accepted by two-dimensional alternating one-marker automata, alternating one-marker automata with only universal states, nondeterministic one-marker automata, deterministic one-marker automata, alternating finite automata, and alternating finite automata with only universal states are shown. To do this, we first establish the upper bounds of the working space used by "three-way" alternating Turing machines with only universal states to simulate those "four-way" non-storage machines. These bounds provide us a simplified and unified proof method for the whole variants of one-marker and/or alternating finite state machine, without directly analyzing the complex behavior of the individual four-way machine on two-dimensional rectangular input tapes. We also summarize the known closure properties including Boolean closures for all the variants of two-dimensional alternating one-marker automata.

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