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On the Decidability of the Equivalence Problem for Monadic RecursivePrograms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Vladimir A. Zakharov
Vladimir A. Zakharov*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Voribyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia; (zakh@cs.msu.su)
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Abstract

We present a uniform and easy-to-use technique for deciding the equivalence problem for deterministic monadic linear recursive programs. The key idea is to reduce this problem to the well-known group-theoretic problems by revealing an algebraic nature of program computations. We show that the equivalence problem for monadic linear recursive programs over finite and fixed alphabets of basic functions and logical conditions is decidable in polynomial time for the semantics based on the free monoids and free commutative monoids.

Keywords

Recursive programequivalence problemdecidabilitymonoid.
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , March 2000 , pp. 157 - 171
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© EDP Sciences, 2000

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