Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 14:46): Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 14:46):From: Tobias Nipkow <nipkow@in.tum.de>
Decision Procedures for MSO on Words Based on Derivatives of Regular Expressions
Dmitriy Traytel and Tobias Nipkow
Monadic second-order logic on finite words (MSO) is a decidable yet expressive
logic into which many decision problems can be encoded. Since MSO formulas
correspond to regular languages, equivalence of MSO formulas can be reduced to
the equivalence of some regular structures (e.g. automata). We verify an
executable decision procedure for MSO formulas that is not based on automata but
on regular expressions.
Decision procedures for regular expression equivalence have been formalized
before, usually based on Brzozowski derivatives. Yet, for a straightforward
embedding of MSO formulas into regular expressions an extension of regular
expressions with a projection operation is required. We prove total correctness
and completeness of an equivalence checker for regular expressions extended in
that way. We also define a language-preserving translation of formulas into
regular expressions with respect to two different semantics of MSO.
The formalization is described in this ICFP 2013 functional pearl:
http://www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow/pubs/icfp13.html
http://afp.sourceforge.net/entries/MSO_Regex_Equivalence.shtml
Enjoy!
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