Minimal Separating Sets for

نویسنده

  • Helmut Lescow
چکیده

For a Muller automaton only a subset of its states is needed to decide whether a run is accepting or not: The set I the innnitely often visited states can be replaced by the intersection I \ W with a xed set W of states, provided W is large enough to distinguish between accepting and non-accepting loops in the automaton. We call such a subset W a separating set. Whereas the idea was previously introduced by McNaughton McN93], the algorithmic construction of smallest separating sets is not treated in the literature. In this paper we show that the test whether in a Muller automaton a separating set of a given size exists is an NP-complete problem. As a step towards an eecient computation of a separating set of minimal size we present an algorithm in the second part of the paper, based on an analysis of the loop structure of the given automaton. An implementation is available.

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تاریخ انتشار 1997