A note on well quasi-orderings for powersets

dc.contributor.authorJančar, Petr
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-01T13:05:26Z
dc.date.available2007-08-01T13:05:26Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstract-enThis note characterizes those quasi-orderings (A, less than or equal to) for which (P(A), subset of or equal to) are well quasi-orderings, where B-1 subset of or equal to B-2 iff (For All y is an element of B-2)(There Exists x is an element of B-1): x less than or equal to y (for B-1, B-2 subset of or equal to A). It turns out that they are those which do not contain the “Rado structure”, hence are ω2-well quasi-orderings in other words. A motivation for the question has come from the area of verification of infinite-state systems, where the usefulness of well quasi-orderings has already been recognized. This note suggests that finer notions might be useful as well. In particular, ω2-well quasi-orderings illuminate a specific problem related to termination of a reachability algorithm, which has been touched on by Abdulla and Jonsson.en
dc.identifier.citationInformation Processing Letters. 1999, vol. 72, issues 5-6, p. 155-160.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/S0020-0190(99)00149-0
dc.identifier.issn0020-0190
dc.identifier.locationNení ve fondu ÚKen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10084/61344
dc.identifier.wos000084880400002
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInformation Processing Lettersen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0190(99)00149-0en
dc.subjecttheory of computationen
dc.subjectwell quasi-orderingsen
dc.subjectpowersetsen
dc.titleA note on well quasi-orderings for powersetsen
dc.typearticleen

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