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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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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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Covering and separation for logical fragments with modular predicates

Thomas Place ; Varun Ramanathan ; Pascal Weil.

For every class $\mathscr{C}$ of word languages, one may associate a decision problem called $\mathscr{C}$-separation. Given two regular languages, it asks whether there exists a third language in $\mathscr{C}$ containing the first language, while being disjoint from the second one. Usually, finding&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Regular tree languages in low levels of the Wadge Hierarchy

Mikołaj Bojańczyk ; Filippo Cavallari ; Thomas Place ; Michał Skrzypczak.

In this article we provide effective characterisations of regular languages of infinite trees that belong to the low levels of the Wadge hierarchy. More precisely we prove decidability for each of the finite levels of the hierarchy; for the class of the Boolean combinations of open sets&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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