Undecidability of infinite post correspondence problem for instances of size 8

Jing Dong*, Qinghui Liu

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Abstract

The infinite Post Correspondence Problem (ωPCP) was shown to be undecidable by Ruohonen (1985) in general. Blondel and Canterini [Theory Comput. Syst. 36 (2003) 231-245] showed that ωPCP is undecidable for domain alphabets of size 105, Halava and Harju [RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl. 40 (2006) 551-557] showed that ωPCP is undecidable for domain alphabets of size 9. By designing a special coding, we delete a letter from Halava and Harju's construction. So we prove that ωPCP is undecidable for domain alphabets of size 8.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)451-457
Number of pages7
JournalRAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications
Volume46
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2012

Keywords

  • Semi-Thue system
  • Theory of computation
  • Undecidable
  • ωPCP

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