Singly exponential translation of alternating weak Büchi automata to unambiguous Büchi automata

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2024
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We introduce a method for translating an alternating weak Büchi automaton (AWA), which corresponds to a Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) formula, to an unambiguous Büchi automaton (UBA). Our translations generalize constructions for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), a less expressive specification language than LDL. In classical constructions, LTL formulas are first translated to alternating very weak Büchi automata (AVAs)—automata that have only singleton strongly connected components (SCCs); these AVAs are then handled by efficient disambiguation procedures. However, general AWAs can have larger SCCs, which complicates disambiguation. Currently, the only available disambiguation procedure has to go through an intermediate construction of nondeterministic Büchi automata (NBAs), which would incur an exponential blow-up of its own. We introduce a translation from general AWAs to UBAs with a singly exponential blow-up, which also immediately provides a singly exponential translation from LDL to UBAs. Interestingly, the complexity of our translation is smaller than the best known disambiguation algorithm for NBAs (broadly (0.53n)n vs. (0.76n)n), while the input of our construction can be exponentially more succinct.

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Li, Y., Schewe, S., & Vardi, M. Y. (2024). Singly exponential translation of alternating weak Büchi automata to unambiguous Büchi automata. Theoretical Computer Science, 1006, 114650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2024.114650

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