Włodzimierz Moczurad - Decidability of multiset, set and numerically decipherable directed figure codes

dmtcs:1430 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, May 3, 2017, Vol. 19 no. 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-19-1-11
Decidability of multiset, set and numerically decipherable directed figure codesArticle

Authors: Włodzimierz Moczurad

    Codes with various kinds of decipherability, weaker than the usual unique decipherability, have been studied since multiset decipherability was introduced in mid-1980s. We consider decipherability of directed figure codes, where directed figures are defined as labelled polyominoes with designated start and end points, equipped with catenation operation that may use a merging function to resolve possible conflicts. This is one of possible extensions generalizing words and variable-length codes to planar structures. Here, verification whether a given set is a code is no longer decidable in general. We study the decidability status of figure codes depending on catenation type (with or without a merging function), decipherability kind (unique, multiset, set or numeric) and code geometry (several classes determined by relative positions of start and end points of figures). We give decidability or undecidability proofs in all but two cases that remain open.


    Volume: Vol. 19 no. 1
    Section: Automata, Logic and Semantics
    Published on: May 3, 2017
    Accepted on: April 12, 2017
    Submitted on: May 3, 2017
    Keywords: Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory

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