leroux jerome - The General Vector Addition System Reachability Problem by Presburger Inductive Invariants

lmcs:1024 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, September 9, 2010, Volume 6, Issue 3 - https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-6(3:22)2010
The General Vector Addition System Reachability Problem by Presburger Inductive InvariantsArticle

Authors: leroux jerome

    The reachability problem for Vector Addition Systems (VASs) is a central problem of net theory. The general problem is known to be decidable by algorithms exclusively based on the classical Kosaraju-Lambert-Mayr-Sacerdote-Tenney decomposition. This decomposition is used in this paper to prove that the Parikh images of languages recognized by VASs are semi-pseudo-linear; a class that extends the semi-linear sets, a.k.a. the sets definable in Presburger arithmetic. We provide an application of this result; we prove that a final configuration is not reachable from an initial one if and only if there exists a semi-linear inductive invariant that contains the initial configuration but not the final one. Since we can decide if a Presburger formula denotes an inductive invariant, we deduce that there exist checkable certificates of non-reachability. In particular, there exists a simple algorithm for deciding the general VAS reachability problem based on two semi-algorithms. A first one that tries to prove the reachability by enumerating finite sequences of actions and a second one that tries to prove the non-reachability by enumerating Presburger formulas.


    Volume: Volume 6, Issue 3
    Published on: September 9, 2010
    Imported on: January 4, 2010
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,F.1

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