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Decision problems for regular trace languages

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1987)

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We solve the open problem of characterizing those concurrency alphabets for which the equivalence problem for regular trace languages is decidable. We also give a characterization for the cases in which the intersection emptiness problem is decidable.

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Abalbersberg, I.J., Hoogeboom, H.J. (1987). Decision problems for regular trace languages. In: Ottmann, T. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18088-5_20

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