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Shortest paths in one-counter systems

Dmitry Chistikov ; Wojciech Czerwiński ; Piotr Hofman ; Michał Pilipczuk ; Michael Wehar.

We show that any one-counter automaton with $n$ states, if its language is non-empty, accepts some word of length at most $O(n^2)$. This closes the gap between the previously known upper bound of $O(n^3)$ and lower bound of $\Omega(n^2)$. More generally, we prove a tight upper bound on the length of&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Simulation Problems Over One-Counter Nets

Piotr Hofman ; Slawomir Lasota ; Richard Mayr ; Patrick Totzke.

One-counter nets (OCN) are finite automata equipped with a counter that can store non-negative integer values, and that cannot be tested for zero. Equivalently, these are exactly 1-dimensional vector addition systems with states. We show that both strong and weak simulation preorder on OCN are&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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