The Reachability Problem for Two-Dimensional Vector Addition Systems with States

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.

Real Vector Space and Related NotionsThis study was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 17K00182 and 20K19863.

Summary. In this paper, we discuss the properties that hold in finite dimensional vector spaces and related spaces. In the Mizar language [1], [2], variables are strictly typed, and their type conversion requires a complicated process. Our purpose is to formalize that some properties of finite dimensional vector spaces are preserved in type transformations, and to contain the complexity of type transformations into this paper. Specifically, we show that properties such as algebraic structure, subsets, finite sequences and their sums, linear combination, linear independence, and affine independence are preserved in type conversions among TOP-REAL(n), REAL-NS(n), and n-VectSp over F Real. We referred to [4], [9], and [8] in the formalization.