The theory of reachability in trace-pushdown systems

We consider pushdown systems that store, instead of a single word, a Mazurkiewicz trace on its stack. These systems are special cases of valence automata over graph monoids and subsume multi-stack systems. We identify a class of such systems that allow to decide the first-order theory of their configuration graph with reachability. This result complements results by D'Osualdo, Meyer, and Zetzsche (namely the decidability for arbitrary pushdown systems under a severe restriction on the dependence alphabet).

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Fundamenta Informaticae
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2026-09-29
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https://doi.org/10.46298/fi.16091
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semigroups and automata theory
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The theory of reachability in trace-pushdown systems

Dietrich Kuske
Fundamenta Informaticae
semigroups and automata theory
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The theory of reachability in trace-pushdown systems

Dietrich Kuske
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Abstract

We consider pushdown systems that store, instead of a single word, a Mazurkiewicz trace on its stack. These systems are special cases of valence automata over graph monoids and subsume multi-stack systems. We identify a class of such systems that allow to decide the first-order theory of their configuration graph with reachability. This result complements results by D'Osualdo, Meyer, and Zetzsche (namely the decidability for arbitrary pushdown systems under a severe restriction on the dependence alphabet).

Fundamenta InformaticaeVol. Volume 196, Issue 2
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semigroups and automata theory
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