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T1 Complexity of Bradley-Manna-Sipma Lexicographic Ranking Functions
A1 Ben-Amran, Amir  M., Amir  M.
A1 Genaim, Samir
AB In this paper we turn the spotlight on a class of lexicographic ranking functions introduced by Bradley, Manna and Sipma in a seminal CAV 2005 paper, and establish for the first time the complexity of some problems involving the inference of such functions for linear-constraint loops (without precondition). We show that finding such a function, if one exists, can be done in polynomial time in a way which is sound and complete when the variables range over the rationals (or reals). We show that when variables range over the integers, the problem is harder—deciding the existence of a ranking function is coNP-complete. Next, we study the problem of minimizing the number of components in the ranking function (a.k.a. the dimension). This number is interesting in contexts like computing iteration bounds and loop parallelization. Surprisingly, and unlike the situation for some other classes of lexicographic ranking functions, we find that even deciding whether a two-component ranking function exists is harder than the unrestricted problem: NP-complete over the rationals and Σ P 2 - complete over the integers.
YR 2015
FD 2015-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/25004
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/25004
LA eng
NO Publicado en Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9207
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 19 abr 2025