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Equations over sets of integers with addition only
Affiliation:1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland;2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Finland
Abstract:Systems of equations of the form X=Y+Z and X=C are considered, in which the unknowns are sets of integers, the plus operator denotes element-wise sum of sets, and C is an ultimately periodic constant. For natural numbers, such equations are equivalent to language equations over a one-symbol alphabet using concatenation and regular constants. It is shown that such systems are computationally universal: for every recursive (r.e., co-r.e.) set SN there exists a system with a unique (least, greatest) solution containing a component T with S={n|16n+13T}. Testing solution existence for these equations is Π10-complete, solution uniqueness is Π20-complete, and finiteness of the set of solutions is Σ30-complete. A similar construction for integers represents any hyper-arithmetical set SZ by a set TZ satisfying S={n|16nT}, whereas testing solution existence is Σ11-complete.
Keywords:Language equations  Unary languages  Concatenation  Computability
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