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A decidable characterization of locally testable tree languages

Thomas Place ; Luc Segoufin.

A regular tree language L is locally testable if membership of a tree in L depends only on the presence or absence of some fix set of neighborhoods in the tree. In this paper we show that it is decidable whether a regular tree language is locally testable. The decidability is shown for ranked trees&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Deciding definability in FO2(<h,<v) on trees

Thomas Place ; Luc Segoufin.

We provide a decidable characterization of regular forest languages definable in FO2(<h,<v). By FO2(<h,<v) we refer to the two variable fragment of first order logic built from the descendant relation and the following sibling relation. In terms of expressive power it corresponds to a fragment of&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Separating regular languages with two quantifier alternations

Thomas Place.

We investigate a famous decision problem in automata theory: separation. Given a class of language C, the separation problem for C takes as input two regular languages and asks whether there exists a third one which belongs to C, includes the first one and is disjoint from the second. Typically,&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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The Covering Problem

Thomas Place ; Marc Zeitoun.

An important endeavor in computer science is to understand the expressive power of logical formalisms over discrete structures, such as words. Naturally, "understanding" is not a mathematical notion. This investigation requires therefore a concrete objective to capture this understanding. In the&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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